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SAT SATURDAY 27 APRIL 2013 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b01s0s4c (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:30 Book of the Week b01s687m (Listen) SAT Letters from Italy, Annalisa Piras SAT SAT The last of five Letters from Italy at a time of huge SAT upheaval in that country. The week ends with the thoughts of SAT Annalisa Piras, the London based journalist and author of SAT the recent TV documentary 'Girlfriend in a Coma'. SAT SAT Annalisa's letter was written while on a recent holiday in SAT her native country and so comes with the distant observation SAT of one who spends time watching developments from a SAT distance. She understands the British view of Italy and is SAT concerned and puzzled that a political system that she used SAT to understand seems to have become even more confusing and SAT unfathomable. SAT SAT Her letter takes her from the Tuscan countryside to Rome, to SAT the coast and then, for her concluding thoughts back to SAT London where she reflects on what is happening and what SAT might happen as Italy continues to teeter on the edge of SAT economic crisis. SAT SAT At a time when Italy's political and economic fragility is SAT in the spotlight, 5 leading Italian figures deliver a letter SAT about Italy today, the dangers and the future possibilities. SAT SAT Annalisa Piras is an Italian Journalist based in London. SAT SAT Producer: Tom Alban. SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01s0s4f (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01s0s4h (Listen) SAT BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SAT at 5.20am. SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01s0s4k (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b01s0s4m (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01s0ttm (Listen) SAT A reading and a reflection to start the day with the Rev'd SAT Peter Baker. SAT SAT 05:45 iPM b01s0ttp (Listen) SAT The programme that starts with its listeners. SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b01s0s4p (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b01s0s4r (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Open Country b01s0qn3 (Listen) SAT Fens of Cambridgeshire SAT SAT What is phenology? Felicity Evans visits Fenland SAT Cambridgeshire to learn about an influential but largely SAT unacknowledged Victorian vicar - the Reverend Leonard Jenyns SAT - who made a lasting contribution to science. SAT SAT Jenyns is certainly not as well known as Charles Darwin, SAT even though he passed up the chance of sailing on HMS Beagle SAT as the ship's naturalist. In fact, Jenyns never set foot SAT outside the UK, yet his contribution to science was SAT enormous. Felicity hears how phenology has become a key SAT aspect of observing climate change, noting the first and SAT last days of the seasons. SAT SAT She finds out how much Fenland Cambridgeshire has been dried SAT out since Jenyns' day, and the ways in which this rural SAT vicar bore witness to the habitat destruction and species SAT extinction in his own parish in the mid-Victorian period. SAT SAT Producer: Mark Smalley. SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b01s3706 (Listen) SAT Farming Today This Week SAT SAT The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b01s0s4t (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b01s378x (Listen) SAT Morning news and current affairs with James Naughtie and SAT John Humphrys. Including Yesterday in Parliament, Sports SAT Desk, Thought for the Day, Weather. SAT SAT 09:00 Saturday Live b01s378z (Listen) SAT Howard Goodall, John McCarthy, Mary Berry SAT SAT Sian Williams and Richard Coles with broadcaster and SAT composer Howard Goodall, the Inheritance Tracks of cookery SAT writer Mary Berry, a visit to Kosovo with John McCarthy, a SAT trip around Sussex admiring stiles in the company of the SAT Monday Group who build and maintain them, a chat with opera SAT singer Nicky Spence who turned down a million pound SAT contract, local newspaperman and lifelong Newcastle United SAT fan John Gibson talking about his life and work, and a jolly SAT singalong in a public house. SAT SAT Producer: Chris Wilson. SAT SAT 10:30 Building Bridges - The Art of the Middle 8 b01s3791 (Listen) SAT Midge Ure explores the art and the craft of the bridge, or SAT middle 8, in popular song. SAT SAT Think of A Day In The Life, Good Vibrations, We Can Work It SAT Out, I'm Not In Love and Born To Run. Each of them features SAT a clever middle section which builds musical tension. SAT SAT It's not always in the middle and it's not always 8 bars in SAT length, but its job is always to introduce a new element SAT into the song, a new chord sequence or melody, a change in SAT the arrangement or an instrumental solo. SAT SAT Jazz pianist Neil Cowley traces its origins back to Mozart, SAT musicologist Helen Caddick and journalist David Hepworth SAT discuss the drama a good bridge can create, and songwriters SAT Justin Currie and Boo Hewerdine demonstrate some of the most SAT memorable examples and how they were composed. SAT SAT Boo even composes a new middle 8 for a famous Bee Gees song SAT which doesn't have one. SAT SAT Produced by Trevor Dann SAT A TDC production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 11:00 Week in Westminster b01s3793 (Listen) SAT George Parker of The Financial Times looks behind the scenes SAT at Westminster. SAT The editor is Marie Jessel. SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b01s3795 (Listen) SAT The BBC's foreign correspondents take a closer look at the SAT stories behind the headlines. Presented by Kate Adie. SAT SAT 12:00 Money Box b01s3797 (Listen) SAT The latest news from the world of personal finance. SAT Presented by Paul Lewis. SAT SAT 12:30 The News Quiz b01s0ss6 (Listen) SAT Series 80, Episode 3 SAT SAT Satirical review of the week's news, chaired by Sandi SAT Toksvig. SAT SAT Producer: Sam Bryant SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b01s0s4w (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b01s0s4y (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b01s0ssg (Listen) SAT Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate and discussion SAT from Harrow in Middlesex with Green MP Caroline Lucas MP SAT Shadow Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change SAT Caroline Flint MP, and former leader of the Liberal SAT Democrats Sir Ming Campbell. SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b01s3799 (Listen) SAT Listeners' calls and emails in response to this week's SAT edition of Any Questions? SAT SAT 14:30 Saturday Drama b011ttfk (Listen) SAT The Browning Version SAT SAT Written by Terence Rattigan. A starry celebration of Terence SAT Rattigan's centenary. Michael York, Joanne Whalley, Ioan SAT Gruffudd and Ian Ogilvy star in Terence Rattigan's 1948 SAT masterpiece. Set in an English public school on the last day SAT of the summer term, buried emotions re-surface when SAT unpopular classics master Andrew Crocker Harris is given a SAT present on his final day. SAT SAT A once-brilliant classicist, now known by boys and staff SAT alike as 'The Crock', he is retiring due to ill health. When SAT a pupil, Taplow, presents him with an unexpected gift (a SAT copy of Browning's translation of the Agamemnon) The Crock, SAT also known as the Himmler of the Lower Fifth, is SAT overwhelmed. His dammed-up misery, disappointment and SAT humiliation are released and the way is paved for a series SAT of surprising revelations and decisions. SAT SAT A new production directed by Martin Jarvis with an SAT outstanding cast. Acknowledged as Rattigan's enduring SAT masterpiece, 'The Browning Version' shows the writer's SAT unrivalled ability to characterise repressed emotion, and SAT provides a devastating portrait of a dead marriage. One of SAT the finest, most moving and beautifully crafted plays of the SAT 20th century. SAT SAT In the second part of the programme Martin Jarvis, director SAT of 'The Browning Version', reveals some of the play's SAT background and describes Rattigan's hopes, fears and SAT ambitions for its ongoing success. The reading - adapted SAT from 'Terence Rattigan - a Biography' written by Geoffrey SAT Wansell, describes some of the author's 'behind the scenes' SAT difficulties - and includes a number of surprising and very SAT funny anecdotes concerning the play's first production in SAT 1948. SAT SAT Director: Martin Jarvis SAT SAT Produced by Rosalind Ayres SAT A Jarvis & Ayres Production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT Credits SAT Taplow: Matthew Wolf SAT Frank Hunter: Ioan Gruffudd SAT Millie Crocker-Harris: Joanne Whalley SAT Andrew Crocker-Harris: Michael York SAT Headmaster: Ian Ogilvy SAT Peter Gilbert: Stuart Bunce SAT Mrs Gilbert: Kate Maberly SAT Director: Martin Jarvis SAT Producer: Rosalind Ayres SAT Writer: Terence Rattigan SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b01s379c (Listen) SAT Weekend Woman's Hour. Older Women's Style; Margaret Hodge SAT MP; Ana Moura SAT SAT Older women dressing with style and aplomb: journalist SAT Katherine Whitehorn, theatre critic Blanche Marvin and Amber SAT Jane Butchart from the London College of Fashion discuss. SAT Margaret Hodge MP, chair of the Public Accounts Committee on SAT her place in the Woman's Hour Power List. Hadley Freeman SAT talks about feminism and her new book Be Awesome: Modern SAT Life for Modern Ladies. The York schoolgirls and their SAT campaign to get the city's shops to feature adverts using SAT ordinary customers, rather than airbrushed models. Yvonne SAT Roberts and Sue Atkins discuss parenting teens in your 50s SAT and 60s. Women and snoring. Jody Williams on her campaign to SAT end landmines. And Ana Moura sings fado from her latest SAT album Desfado. SAT SAT Presenter Jane Garvey SAT Producer Rebecca Wood. SAT SAT 17:00 PM b01s379f (Listen) SAT Full coverage of the day's news. SAT SAT 17:30 iPM b01s0ttp (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 05:45 today] SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b01s0s52 (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b01s0s54 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01s0s56 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b01s37bg (Listen) SAT Marc Almond, Tanya Franks, Robin Ince, Lalla Ward, Ian SAT Pattison, Matthew E White, Brasstronaut SAT SAT Clive talks illness and death with pop star Marc Almond. SAT Having shot to fame in the eighties as one half of New Wave SAT duo Soft Cell, Marc has also enjoyed a diverse career as a SAT solo artist and has sold over thirty million records SAT worldwide. SAT SAT He's currently performing 'Ten Plagues'; an hour long song SAT cycle, libretto by Mark Ravenhill, which tells the story of SAT the 1665 London Plague through the eyes of a survivor. It's SAT at Wilton's Music Hall, London until 18th May. SAT SAT Clive's time travelling with Doctor Who actress Lalla Ward. SAT Accompanying the Fourth Doctor as Time Lady Romana from the SAT planet Gallifrey, Lalla travelled through space and time in SAT the iconic Tardis. Doctor Who is fifty years old this year SAT and 'Destiny of the Doctor' is a celebratory series on SAT AudioGO, featuring a story for each of the 11 doctors. Lalla SAT performs 'Babblesphere', which is available now. SAT SAT Robin Ince is on the pull with actress Tanya Franks, who SAT played promiscuous primary school teacher Karen in the SAT comedy series 'Pulling' and Lucy Stevens in 'Broadchurch'. SAT Tanya's now starring as the alluring Irene Adler in SAT 'Sherlock Holmes - The Best Kept Secret'. It's at West SAT Yorkshire Playhouse from 18th May to 8th June and then SAT touring. SAT SAT Clive's feeling lucky with Glaswegian writer Ian Pattison, SAT whose TV credits include Scottish sitcoms 'Rab C. Nesbitt' SAT and 'Atletico Patrick'. Ian's new book 'Unhappy-Go-lucky' is SAT the tale of Ivan Moss, who sets aside his heartless streak SAT and weakness for Merlot to give time to his ailing mother SAT and her final hospital appointments. SAT SAT With music from Vancouver sextet Brasstronaut, who perform SAT 'Falklands' from their album 'Mean Sun'. SAT SAT And from Virginia singer-songwriter Matthew E. White, who SAT performs 'Steady Pace' from his album 'Big Inner'. SAT SAT Producer: Sukey Firth. SAT SAT 19:00 Profile b01s37bj (Listen) SAT Alisher Usmanov SAT SAT Alisher Usmanov has just been named the richest man in SAT Britain. Born in Uzbekistan, Usmanov made his fortune in the SAT collapsing Soviet Union. His empire has stretched from SAT plastic bags to minerals, telecoms, Facebook and Arsenal SAT Football Club. But, as Mark Coles reports, Usmanov's rise SAT has not been straightforward, nor free of controversy. SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b01s37f1 (Listen) SAT Adrian Lester as Othello, and The Look of Love with Steve SAT Coogan SAT SAT Adrian Lester and Rory Kinnear star in the long-awaited SAT production of Othello at the National Theatre, directed by SAT Nicholas Hytner. Do the talent and charisma of its leads and SAT a striking setting in a modern-day military conflict add up SAT to the great theatrical event the audience is hoping for? SAT SAT Paul Raymond was a strip club and soft porn tycoon who SAT became the richest man in Britain but he couldn't save his SAT daughter Debbie from a drug-fuelled lifestyle and early SAT death. Steve Coogan plays Raymond in Michael Winterbottom's SAT new film The Look of Love and Imogen Poots plays his SAT daughter, with support from Anna Friel and Tamsin Egerton. SAT How illuminating is this biopic about his life and times? SAT SAT Vicious is a new sitcom on ITV starring two Sirs: Derek SAT Jacobi and Ian McKellen. Frances de la Tour features too in SAT the show which is written by Gary Janetti, who's written for SAT Will & Grace and Family Guy, and is co-created by Mark SAT Ravenhill. SAT SAT New Order: British Art Today at the Saatchi Gallery SAT showcases 17 artists who might come to form a new Sensation SAT generation. Are there stars in the making? SAT SAT And a first novel from Sam Byers, Idiopathy, proclaims on SAT its cover that it is a novel of love, narcissism and ailing SAT cattle... and depicts a couple broken up by relentless SAT arguing who have to meet again when a friend from their past SAT re-appears. SAT SAT Tom Sutcliffe's guests are Dreda Say Mitchell, Cahal Dallat SAT and David Benedict. SAT SAT Producer: Sarah Johnson. SAT SAT Othello continues at the National Theatre, until the 15th SAT August, 2013. SAT SAT The Look of Love is in cinemas in nationwide, certificate SAT 18. SAT SAT Idiopathy by Sam Byers is published by 4th Estate. SAT SAT Vicious begins on ITV on Monday 30th April at 9pm. SAT SAT New Order: British Art Today continues at the Saatchi SAT Gallery until the 29th September 2013. SAT SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 b01s37f3 (Listen) SAT Collar the Lot SAT SAT Actor Tom Conti explores the story of Italian internment in SAT Britain during the Second World War. SAT SAT On June 10th 1940, Mussolini declared war on Britain and SAT France. Overnight, as a result, the thousands of Italians SAT living in Britain were declared enemies, considered a SAT potential threat. Winston Churchill ordered the authorities SAT to 'collar the lot' of so-called 'enemy aliens' and over SAT four thousand Italians were rounded up and imprisoned. SAT SAT Most were shopkeepers, hairdressers, ice cream sellers and SAT respectable citizens at the heart of their communities. Many SAT had been in Britain all their lives. SAT SAT We hear from some of the very few still alive, who were SAT taken from families, jobs and homes to makeshift camps SAT across the UK. SAT SAT Tom Conti's own father was an Italian who had made a life in SAT Scotland. He was married to a Scottish woman and ran a SAT successful business in ladies' hairdressing. The day after SAT Italy declared war he was taken from his home, and interned SAT on the Isle of Man. Tom visits the island to discover which SAT camp his father was kept in, and what conditions were like SAT for the many thousands of men who were kept behind barbed SAT wire during the war. SAT SAT Alfonso Conti narrowly avoided being put on board the cruise SAT liner the Arandora Star, which had been requisitioned for SAT war duties and was bound for Newfoundland carrying SAT internees. It was hit by a torpedo just off the Irish coast SAT and sank within twenty minutes. SAT SAT With archive interviews and testimony from the last Italian SAT survivor, Tom will tell the story of the ship's tragic SAT sinking, in which nearly 500 Italian civilians lost their SAT lives, and lift the lid on this overlooked episode in SAT British history. SAT SAT Produced by Jo Wheeler SAT A Just Radio production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 21:00 Classic Serial b01s0329 (Listen) SAT The Great Scott, Rob Roy SAT SAT Rob Roy by Walter Scott SAT Adapted by Robin Brooks SAT SAT Our Rob Roy has dispensed with the Jacobite setting and SAT updates the story to the 20th century. It is 1924 and SAT 20-year-old Frank falls foul of his father. He has spent a SAT year in Paris, supposedly learning the business, but SAT actually hanging out with Imagist poets. When he refuses to SAT join the business his father sends him north to stay with SAT his Uncle - a radical and mixed up in the cause of Irish SAT Nationalism. SAT SAT Scott's book doesn't really depend on the historical SAT trappings on which the author's reputation now rests. A son SAT being banished by his father because he wants to be a SAT long-haired poet is a perennial situation, as is the SAT love-triangle between Frank, Die Vernon and her wicked SAT cousin Rashleigh. With this production the listener is asked SAT to regard Scott as a novelist like any other, concerned with SAT the workings of the human heart and how they play out in a SAT society more like ours. SAT SAT With David Tennant as Walter Scott SAT All other parts were played by members of the cast SAT The music was composed and performed by Ross Hughes and SAT Esben Tjalve SAT SAT Producer: Clive Brill SAT A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT Credits SAT Frank: Paul Ready SAT Die Vernon: Denise Gough SAT Rob Roy: Mark Bonnar SAT Quentin: Christian Rodska SAT Frank's Father: Christian Rodska SAT Rashleigh: Joe McFadden SAT Owen: Michael Eaves SAT Uncle Hilary: Stuart McGugan SAT Vernon: Stuart McGugan SAT The Post Master: Stuart McGugan SAT O'Brien: Paul Reid SAT Dougal: Callum O'Neill SAT Henry: Callum O'Neill SAT Cummings: Callum O'Neill SAT Walter Scott: David Tennant SAT Producer: Clive Brill SAT Writer: Robin Brooks SAT Composer: Ross Hughes SAT Composer: Esben Tjalve SAT SAT 22:00 News and Weather b01s0s58 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, SAT followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 Four Thought b01pp89r (Listen) SAT Series 3, Anwar Akhtar: The Meaning of Pakistan SAT SAT Anwar Akhtar, Director of The Samosa, argues that Pakistan SAT should think of itself as an Asian nation, not as an Arab SAT one. And after years of working between Britain and SAT Pakistan, he says British Pakistanis are uniquely placed to SAT help Pakistan embrace its multicultural history - and to SAT create a prosperous and peaceful future with India. SAT SAT Four Thought is a series of talks which combine thought SAT provoking ideas and engaging storytelling. Recorded live in SAT front of an audience, speakers air their latest thinking on SAT the trends, ideas, interests and passions that affect our SAT culture and society. SAT SAT Producer: Giles Edwards. SAT SAT 22:30 In Search of the British Dream b01q8lhy (Listen) SAT Episode 1 SAT SAT Foreigners are settling in the UK in record numbers. Lost in SAT the immigration debate are the surprising stories of the SAT migrants themselves and what they say about how Britain SAT works. SAT SAT 23:00 The 3rd Degree b01s09kc (Listen) SAT Series 3, Bath Spa University SAT SAT A lively and funny quiz show, hosted by Steve Punt, where a SAT team of three University students take on a team of three of SAT their professors. SAT SAT Coming this week from Bath Spa University, the specialist SAT subjects are Creative Music Technology, Creative Writing and SAT Physical and Environmental Geography, with questions ranging SAT from VAT rates and model railways all the way to Meet The SAT Kardashians and the Ku Klux Klan - via Mo Farah and Dame SAT Nellie Melba. SAT SAT Producer: David Tyler SAT A Pozzitive production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 23:30 What I Read to the Dead: Wladislaw Szlengel b01s032f (Listen) SAT Writer Eva Hoffman explores the extraordinary verse and SAT little known life of Wladislaw Szlengel, poet of the Warsaw SAT Ghetto. Before the war and the Nazi invasion of Poland, he SAT had written poetry in his native tongue and witty lyrics for SAT popular tunes sung in the nightclubs of Warsaw. But SAT confinement in the Warsaw Ghetto and its increasingly tragic SAT circumstances changed Szlengel's work into urgent bulletins SAT for both fellow Jews, trapped inside the walls of their SAT prison city, and his former Polish neighbours. SAT SAT Szlengel wrote until his last days which came with the SAT discovery of their hiding place in April 1943. Poems like SAT The Little Station of Treblinka, What I Read to the Dead and SAT Counterattack captured with ruthless immediacy the confused, SAT terrifying, days and nights of Ghetto life until the SAT beginnings of the doomed uprising in 1943 that finally SAT brought total destruction. SAT SAT The station is tiny, SAT Three firs grow in a line, SAT This is Treblinka station, SAT Says the ordinary sign. SAT SAT There's not even a cashier's window, SAT A porter's room? Do not seek it. SAT For a million you won't get SAT A simple return ticket. SAT SAT People read aloud Szlengel's verses in their hiding places. SAT In them they recognized not just their plight but their own SAT humanity as family and friends continued to be deported. His SAT poetry survived in versions committed to memory by a handful SAT of survivors, in a small cache of poems kept safe and buried SAT in a unique, secret archive and, decades later, in the form SAT of a sheaf of pages found hidden inside a table marked for SAT firewood. SAT SAT 'I am looking through and sorting the poems that were SAT written to those who are no more. Read it. This is our SAT history. SAT This is what I read to the dead. SAT SAT Reader Elliot Levey SAT SAT Producer Mark Burman. SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 28 APRIL 2013 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b01s37k2 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:30 The Human Cradle b01by9lj (Listen) SUN Government by Magic Spell SUN SUN In 'Government by Magic Spell' by Somali writer Saida SUN Hagi-Dirie Herzi, a young woman is possessed by a jinni, but SUN this soon leads her to a uniquely powerful position in state SUN government. A satirical parable of power and corruption. SUN The third in our series of contemporary stories from the SUN Horn of Africa - Eritrea, Ethiopia and Somalia. SUN Read by Yusra Wasrama SUN Produced by Emma Harding SUN About the author: Saida Hagi-Dirie Herzi is a Somali SUN feminist writer. SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01s37k4 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01s37k6 (Listen) SUN BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SUN at 5.20am. SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01s37k8 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b01s37kb (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b01s38rw (Listen) SUN The bells of St.Mary the Virgin, Chislet, Kent. SUN SUN 05:45 Profile b01s37bj (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 06:00 News Headlines b01s37kd (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b01s38ry (Listen) SUN Escapism SUN SUN The art historian James Fox considers the idea of escapism, SUN asking if there is a human need to escape and, if so, what SUN it might be that we need to escape from. SUN SUN From the idea of heaven to the draw of nostalgia, and from SUN the reaction against the horrors of the First World War to SUN the appeal of popular entertainment, the human imagination SUN is celebrated and explored. SUN SUN James Fox traces a path through readings from, amongst SUN others, W.B. Yeats, David Foster Wallace and Marcel Proust, SUN with music from Gabriel Fauré, Vaughan Williams and The SUN Wizard of Oz. SUN SUN The readers are Mark Quartley, Monica Dolan and Frank SUN Stirling. SUN SUN Producer: Philippa Geering SUN A Unique production for BBC Radio 4. SUN Readings SUN SUN 06:35 The Living World b01s38s0 (Listen) SUN Golden Pheasant SUN SUN One of Britain's scarcest birds is also one of its most SUN beautiful. The flame-coloured golden pheasant is a riot of SUN red, orange and bronze and is native to Chinese forests. The SUN birds are popular around the world as ornamental species and SUN over the years have been introduced on country estates. In a SUN few places they have thrived and a few populations have now SUN established themselves in the wild and are classed as SUN British birds. SUN SUN For Living World, Brett Westwood joins Paul Stancliffe of SUN the British Trust for Ornithology in search of wild golden SUN pheasants in the conifer woods of Norfolk. Here, in spite of SUN their bright colours, they are very elusive and behave much SUN as they do in their native China, skulking in dense SUN undergrowth and glimpsed only as they dash across rides. The SUN population here raises questions as a new atlas of British SUN bird distribution is about to appear later this year. How SUN viable is the population of "goldies" in the UK? As a SUN non-native species should we consider them at all? As SUN numbers in China are in decline, do our UK pheasants have an SUN international importance? They're also inspirational birds SUN which have adapted to our dense forests and are SUN breath-taking to see in the wild. They appear on china, in SUN art, and even in the stained glass window of a nearby SUN church. They prefer to run rather than fly and call loudly SUN at dusk in spring, so this visit is the best chance that SUN Paul and Brett have to see one - a bird that's one of the SUN toughest challenges that the countryside can offer. SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b01s37kg (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b01s37kj (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b01s38s2 (Listen) SUN Sunday morning religious news and current affairs programme. SUN SUN 07:55 Radio 4 Appeal b01s3939 (Listen) SUN 3H Fund SUN SUN Peter Sissons presents the Radio 4 Appeal for 3H Fund SUN (Helping Hands for Holidays) SUN Reg Charity:286306 SUN To Give: SUN - Freephone 0800 404 8144 SUN - Freepost BBC Radio 4 Appeal, mark the back of the envelope SUN 3H Fund. SUN 3H FUND – HELPING HANDS FOR HOLIDAYS SUN SUN Founded over 35 years ago, 3H helps disabled children and SUN adults, and their carers to get away on a well-deserved SUN break - to get some relief from the severe stresses of their SUN everyday situations. Many lead very restricted lives and SUN have not had a period away from the same four walls for many SUN years. It also gives carers the chance to recharge their SUN batteries after long periods of stress and strain. SUN Thousands of people from all over the UK have been helped by SUN 3H – either through organised group holidays, where they can SUN take part in activities not normally available to them, such SUN as sailing, abseiling or kayaking, or by way of grants to SUN those families and carers on low incomes, who have arranged SUN a holiday themselves in the UK. SUN Last year, 3H helped almost 600 people – one of whom was SUN Sarah. She is 22 and wheelchair bound. ‘I love everything SUN about 3H holidays, from the activities to being around such SUN a great group of people. The holiday also gave me time away SUN from home – giving my mum a period of respite from caring SUN for me, as she also cares for my dad as well.’ SUN SUN 07:57 Weather b01s37kl (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b01s37kn (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b01s393c (Listen) SUN Commemorating David Livingstone in the 200th anniversary SUN year of his birth. From Cramond Kirk, Edinburgh with the SUN Revd Russell Barr. SUN SUN Readings: Acts 11: 1-10 SUN John 13: 31-35 SUN Introit: Lord, Give me Faith (Robson) SUN Hymns: God whose almighty word (Moscow) SUN I to the hills will lift mine eyes (French (Dundee) SUN For everyone born a place at the table SUN Ye servants of God (Laudate Dominum) SUN Anthem: There's a wideness in God's mercy (Corvedale): SUN Maurice Bevan. SUN SUN 08:50 A Point of View b01s0ssj (Listen) SUN Bitcoin's Cyber Freedom SUN SUN John Gray wonders what the rise of the cyber currency SUN Bitcoin tells us about our human need for freedom and SUN protection, "The dream of finding some kind of talisman, a SUN benevolent tyrant or a magical new technology, that can SUN shelter us from power and crime and protect us from each SUN other." Producer: Sheila Cook. SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b01s393f (Listen) SUN Sunday morning magazine programme. SUN SUN 10:00 The Archers Omnibus b01s7wm2 (Listen) SUN Lilian takes a risk. Meanwhile, David lays down the law. SUN SUN Credits SUN David Archer: Timothy Bentinck SUN Ruth Archer: Felicity Finch SUN Pip Archer: Helen Monks SUN Josh Archer: Cian Cheesbrough SUN Pat Archer: Patricia Gallimore SUN Helen Archer: Louiza Patikas SUN Tom Archer: Tom Graham SUN Brian Aldridge: Charles Collingwood SUN Lilian Bellamy: Sunny Ormonde SUN Clarrie Grundy: Heather Bell SUN Nic Grundy: Becky Wright SUN Emma Grundy: Emerald O'Hanrahan SUN Edward Grundy: Barry Farrimond SUN Neil Carter: Brian Hewlett SUN Mike Tucker: Terry Molloy SUN Vicky Tucker: Rachel Atkins SUN Roy Tucker: Ian Pepperell SUN Hayley Tucker: Lorraine Coady SUN Brenda Tucker: Amy Shindler SUN Jim Lloyd: John Rowe SUN Paul Morgan: Michael Fenton Stevens SUN Celia Redwood: Anita Dobson SUN Darrell Makepeace: Dan Hagley SUN Des Chapman: Ben Crowe SUN 1st Police Officer: Ben Whybrow SUN 2nd Police Officer: Rob Swinton SUN Director: Kim Greengrass SUN Producer: Vanessa Whitburn SUN Writer: Mary Cutler SUN SUN 11:15 The Reunion b01s393k (Listen) SUN The Centre for Alternative Technology SUN SUN Sue MacGregor reunites the pioneers behind The Centre for SUN Alternative Technology (CAT), the radical community that SUN launched the Green Movement in Britain from a disused slate SUN quarry in Machynlleth, Wales. SUN SUN Led by an entrepreneurial aristocrat turned SUN environmentalist, a group of self-declared 'Crazy Idealists' SUN arrived at 'The Quarry' in 1973 with an urgent mission. The SUN limits to growth and resources had been forecast, the SUN nuclear threat was real, and fundamentally new ways of SUN living had to be found that were more self-sufficient, SUN locally-focused, and alternative to the assumptions of SUN modern industrial society. SUN SUN From humble beginnings as a tiny commune sidelined by the SUN scientific establishment, CAT went on to build some of SUN Britain's first ever electricity generating windmills and SUN the largest solar roof in Europe. They attracted the SUN patronage of the royal family, the suspicions and support of SUN their local Welsh neighbours, and the interest of tens of SUN thousands of visitors. Forty years on, the alternatives that SUN CAT pioneered are becoming mainstream, and the Centre's work SUN is more relevant than ever. SUN SUN Joining Sue MacGregor are: Mark Matthews, the Centre's first SUN director; architect Roderick James, who designed the first SUN complex of buildings; Bob Todd, the Centre's pioneering SUN technical expert; Liz Todd, Bob's wife and an early SUN volunteer, who raised her young family on the site; and Des SUN Rees, the Welsh builder who unexpectedly found himself SUN immersed in The Quarry's unique way of life. SUN SUN Producer: Patrick Sykes SUN Series Producer: David Prest SUN The Reunion is a Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 12:00 The Unbelievable Truth b01s09km (Listen) SUN Series 11, Episode 3 SUN SUN David Mitchell hosts the panel game in which four comedians SUN are encouraged to tell lies and compete against one another SUN to see how many items of truth they're able to smuggle past SUN their opponents. Ed Byrne, Mark Watson, Tony Hawks and Lucy SUN Porter are the panellists obliged to talk with deliberate SUN inaccuracy on subjects as varied as the horn, windows, SUN monkeys and grass. SUN SUN The show is devised by Graeme Garden and Jon Naismith, the SUN team behind Radio 4's I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue. SUN SUN Producer: Jon Naismith SUN A Random Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 12:32 Food Programme b01s395f (Listen) SUN Black Pudding v Boudin Noir SUN SUN Charles Campion reports from Normandy in France as he helps SUN judge the world black pudding championships, which features SUN entries from Japanese, Austrian and Irish butchers. SUN SUN Each year the "knights of the black pudding", a long SUN established organisation of food lovers, hold the annual SUN Foire au Boudin. Nearly six hundred butchers from around the SUN world enter the competition to help celebrate the ancient SUN dish. SUN SUN As Charles discovers most of the world's great food cultures SUN have some form of blood sausage and they vary in size, SUN shape, texture and flavour. SUN SUN Although we've been making this dish since the arrival of SUN the Romans, many parts of Britain have fallen out of love SUN with the black pudding. The simple recipe of blood, barley, SUN fat, onions and spices is affordable, delicious and a SUN complete meal, and there are signs of a chef led revival. SUN SUN The competition, and the work on display of some extremely SUN creative butchers provides many delicious reasons why this SUN humble food really is worthy of a revival. Young chef and SUN rising star James Winter based in Gloucestshire, also SUN provides some tips on how to cook black pudding. SUN SUN Producer: Dan Saladino. SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b01s37kq (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b01s39z4 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news, including an SUN in-depth look at events around the world. Email: SUN wato@bbc.co.uk; twitter: #theworldthisweekend. SUN SUN 13:30 Living with Lady T b01s8pm4 (Listen) SUN Charles Moore shares insights gleaned while working on the SUN first volume of Margaret Thatcher's authorised biography. SUN Recorded partly by Charles Moore himself over an extended SUN period, the programme contains some surprising stories about SUN his subject from high-profile and less well-known figures in SUN her life as well as reflections on the biographical process. SUN SUN Producer: Helen Grady. SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b01s0slz (Listen) SUN St Keverne SUN SUN This week Radio 4's horticultural panel show is in St SUN Keverne, Cornwall, with Eric Robson in the chair and Anne SUN Swithinbank, Toby Buckland and Bunny Guinness on the panel. SUN SUN Produced by Howard Shannon. SUN A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 14:45 The Listening Project b01s39z6 (Listen) SUN Conversations about the perils facing fishermen, the legacy SUN of a Catholic upbringing, ensuring disabled children are SUN cared for after you've gone, and planning your future are SUN all introduced by Fi Glover in the Sunday Edition of Radio SUN 4's series that proves it's surprising what you hear when SUN you listen. SUN SUN The Listening Project is a Radio 4 initiative that offers a SUN snapshot of contemporary Britain in which people across the SUN UK volunteer to have a conversation with someone close to SUN them about a subject they've never discussed intimately SUN before. The conversations are being gathered across the UK SUN by teams of producers from local and national radio stations SUN who facilitate each encounter. Every conversation - they're SUN not BBC interviews, and that's an important difference - SUN lasts up to an hour, and is then edited to extract the key SUN moment of connection between the participants. Most of the SUN unedited conversations are being archived by the British SUN Library and used to build up a collection of voices SUN capturing a unique portrait of the UK in the second decade SUN of the millennium. You can upload your own conversations or SUN just learn more about The Listening Project by visiting SUN bbc.co.uk/listeningproject SUN SUN Producer: Marya Burgess. SUN SUN 15:00 Classic Serial b01s39z8 (Listen) SUN The Great Scott, Waverley SUN SUN Waverley by Walter Scott SUN Adapted by Mike Harris SUN SUN A gripping tale of love, war and divided loyalties with SUN Scotland in open rebellion against the Union with England. SUN SUN It's 1745 and 21year old Edward Waverley, a newly SUN commissioned red-coat officer, is posted to Scotland on the SUN eve of Bonnie Prince Charlie's violent bid for power. His SUN father is a rising minister in the ruling Hanoverian state, SUN but the beloved Uncle who brought him up is an old Jacobite, SUN loyal to the exiled Stewart dynasty. SUN SUN Waverley falls in love with two very different Scottish SUN girls - the cautious, loyalist, lowlander Rose Bradwardine, SUN and the fiery highland rebel Flora. He goes AWOL for Flora SUN just as her brother Fergus is rallying their clan to fight SUN for Charlie. SUN SUN When Waverley is accused by his Commanding Officer of a SUN treasonable flirtation with the enemy, he joins the uprising SUN in a fit of pique and helps defeat an English army at the SUN battle of Prestonpans. SUN SUN When he finds out that he has caused the arrest of Uncle, he SUN returns to London to try to clear his name. SUN SUN With David Tennant as Walter Scott. SUN SUN All other parts are played by members of the cast. SUN SUN The music is composed and performed by Ross Hughes and Esben SUN Tjalve. SUN SUN Producer: Clive Brill SUN A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN Credits SUN Waverley: Rupert Evans SUN Gardiner: Christian Rodska SUN Flora: Alison McKenzie SUN Mrs Bates: Alison McKenzie SUN Rose: Olivia Morgan SUN Fergus: Forbes Masson SUN Evan Dhu: Mark Bonnar SUN Charles Edward Stuart: Joe McFadden SUN Gilfillin: Robert Hudson SUN Walter Scott: David Tennant SUN Actor: Clive Brill SUN Producer: Clive Brill SUN Writer: Mike Harris SUN SUN 16:00 Open Book b01s39zb (Listen) SUN Sir Walter Scott Special from the Royal Opera House SUN SUN Sir Walter Scott special from The Royal Opera House, with SUN biographer Stuart Kelly and authors Denise Mina and Allan SUN Massie SUN SUN Producer: Andrea Kidd. SUN SUN 16:30 Poetry Please b01s39zd (Listen) SUN Roger McGough presents the first in a new series of poems SUN requested by listeners, with an edition that dares to walk SUN on the wilder side, focusing on feelings other than those SUN that relate to love. If the emotions felt in a single day SUN were mapped across a life, what would be encountered? We SUN hear poems that touch upon darker feelings, such as hatred, SUN shame and remembrance. SUN SUN Joined by the actors Patrick Romer, Kate Littlewood and Alun SUN Raglan, Roger introduces poems by the likes of the footloose SUN Verlaine, some sharply observed gems by Emily Dickinson, a SUN dark poem about shame by the American poet Richard Wilbur, SUN and a lament that conjures up powerful suburban SUN frustrations, written by the Bristol-based poet and SUN novelist, Helen Dunmore. SUN SUN Producer: Mark Smalley. SUN SUN 17:00 Tax Avoidance: The Hidden Cost b01s0df4 (Listen) SUN The revelation of how little tax Google, Starbucks and SUN Amazon have been paying on their global operations has SUN triggered political indignation around the world and thrown SUN fresh light on the aggressive techniques multi-national SUN companies can use to slash their tax bills. SUN SUN More than lost tax is at stake. SUN SUN In this programme, Michael Robinson reports on the SUN additional advantages aggressive tax avoidance can provide SUN to multinationals. SUN SUN With sophisticated systems, shifting their profits to SUN low-tax countries, these multinationals have a competitive SUN edge over nationally-based companies whose tax bills are SUN usually far harder to avoid. SUN SUN The result: more profit for the multinational and squeezed SUN margins for the national competitor. SUN SUN And there's more. With an effective tax-avoiding SUN infrastructure in place, aggressive multinationals are SUN better placed to compete for new markets or to buy up SUN competitors in higher-tax countries - further extending SUN their global reach. SUN SUN For governments around the world, many already facing SUN slowdown and recession, such tax-avoidance powered SUN competition is a disturbing danger. Because as a SUN tax-avoiding company extends its operations, so a country's SUN revenues from corporate tax come under threat. SUN SUN While politicians around the world look for ways to cut back SUN corporate tax avoidance, and with Prime Minister David SUN Cameron promising the issue will be on the agenda when the SUN G8 group of world leaders meet in Northern Ireland in June, SUN this programme assesses their chances of reversing this SUN global trend. SUN SUN 17:40 Profile b01s37bj (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b01s37ks (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b01s37kv (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01s37kx (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b01s39zg (Listen) SUN In Pick Of The Week, we join a production of Shakespeare's SUN Henry V featuring a cast of former soldiers who identify SUN strongly with the characters they play. What's more they SUN find that drama is therapy for their post-traumatic stress. SUN SUN Principal ballerina Tamara Rojo (Roko) introduces the music SUN which calms her down; Hugh Bonneville finds himself SUN transported to a parallel universe; Tom Conti recalls his SUN father, an Italian hairdresser in Paisley; and we discover SUN the origins of Muzak. SUN SUN Join Gerry Northam for his highlights of the week's SUN listening. SUN SUN Ella in Berlin - Radio 4 SUN Noise: A Human History Ep 28 - Radio 4 SUN The Essay: Unknown Cities, Kunming - Radio 3 SUN The Reunion: The Centre for Alternative Technology - Radio 4 SUN The Big Ditch Ep 1 - Radio 4 SUN Private Passions with Tamara Rojo - Radio 3 SUN And Calm Of Mind - Radio 4 SUN Archive on Four: Collar The Lot - Radio 4 SUN What I Read To The Dead - Radio 4 SUN Cultural Exchange on Front Row, Adrian Lester - Radio 4 SUN The Unbelievable Truth - Radio 4 SUN Married - 4 Extra. SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b01s39zj (Listen) SUN Helen helps Pat see a way through. SUN SUN 19:15 Believe It! b01j5nw6 (Listen) SUN Power SUN SUN Celebrity autobiographies are everywhere. Richard Wilson has SUN always said he'd never write one. SUN Based on glimmers of truth, BELIEVE IT is the hilarious, SUN bizarre, revealing (and, most importantly, untrue) celebrity SUN radiography of Richard Wilson. SUN SUN He narrates the series, weaving in and out of dramatised SUN scenes from his fictional life-story. He plays a heavily SUN exaggerated version of himself: a Scots actor and national SUN treasure, unmarried, private, passionate about politics, SUN theatre and Manchester United (all true), who's a confidant SUN of the powerful and has survived childhood poverty, a SUN drunken father, years of fruitless grind, too much success, SUN monstrosity, addiction, charity work, secret work for SUN governments and fierce rivalry with Sean Connery (not true). SUN All the melodramatic staples of celebrity-autobiography are SUN wonderfully undercut by Richard's deadpan delivery. SUN (The title - in case you hadn't spotted - is an unashamed SUN reference to his famous catchphrase.) SUN Richard is supported by a small core cast viz: SUN David Tennant SUN John Sessions SUN Lewis Macleod SUN Arabella Weir SUN And Jane Slavin SUN Who play anyone and everyone! SUN SUN Ghost written by Jon Canter SUN Produced by: Clive Brill SUN A Pacificus Production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN Credits SUN Narrator: Richard Wilson SUN Actor: David Tennant SUN Actor: John Sessions SUN Actor: Lewis Macleod SUN Actor: Arabella Weir SUN Actor: Jane Slavin SUN Producer: Clive Brill SUN Writer: Jon Canter SUN SUN 19:45 George Mackay Brown Stories b01s39zl (Listen) SUN The Wireless Set SUN SUN The first in a series of three short stories by one of SUN Orkney's finest writers, George Mackay Brown. An SUN internationally renowned poet and Booker-nominated novelist, SUN Mackay Brown's work was infused by the islands history and SUN culture; his friend Seamus Heaney said of him: "He SUN transforms everything by passing it through the eye of the SUN needle of Orkney." SUN SUN In today's story, set in 1939, a couple are bemused by their SUN son's gift of a wireless set, but when he leaves the small SUN island community for service in the Navy, they and their SUN neighbours keep a close ear upon the news it brings of the SUN war's progress. SUN SUN George Mackay Brown (1921 - 1996) was a prolific short story SUN writer. "The Wireless Set" can be found in the collection "A SUN Time to Keep", which is republished this month by Birlinn. SUN SUN Read by Claire Knight. SUN Produced by Kirsteen Cameron. SUN SUN The opening music is "Shapinsay Polka" by Jennifer and Hazel SUN Wrigley, taken from their album Mither O' The Sea. SUN Blog: George Mackay Brown and Orkney SUN SUN 20:00 Feedback b01s0sm5 (Listen) SUN In the last of the current series of Feedback, Roger Bolton SUN is joined by Gwyneth Williams, the Controller of Radio 4. SUN She responds to listener questions on topics ranging from SUN the coverage of Baroness Thatcher's funeral to Paul and SUN Lillian's love affair in The Archers. SUN SUN Earlier this week the Chancellor of the Exchequer, George SUN Osborne, was interviewed by John Humphrys about UK borrowing SUN figures - but the interview took a personal turn at the end SUN when Mr Osborne was quizzed on his tears during Margaret SUN Thatcher's funeral. We hear the views of listeners who were SUN unimpressed by the line of questioning. SUN SUN Also, are standards of grammar and pronunciation slipping at SUN Radio 4? Many think so. But what will the Controller make of SUN the comments? SUN SUN Producer: Kate Taylor SUN A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. SUN Feedback Blog SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b01s0sm3 (Listen) SUN An interior designer, a theatre director, a cricketer, a SUN prima ballerina and a musician SUN SUN Matthew Bannister on SUN SUN The designer Jocasta Innes who wrote "The Pauper's Cookbook" SUN and "Paint Magic", introducing a generation to stippling and SUN rag rolling. Her daughter Daisy Goodwin shares her memories. SUN SUN The theatre director and poet Patrick Garland: his friend SUN Alan Bennett pays tribute. SUN SUN The cricketer Mike Denness, an elegant batsman who captained SUN Kent and England and started an international row as a match SUN referee. SUN SUN Maria Tallchief - the native American ballet dancer who was SUN a muse to her husband George Ballanchine. SUN SUN And the singer and songwriter Richie Havens who opened the SUN Woodstock festival when other acts were stuck in traffic. SUN Tom Findlay of Groove Armada recalls working with him SUN recently. SUN SUN Producer: Julian May SUN SUN 21:00 Money Box b01s3797 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b01s3939 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 today] SUN SUN 21:30 In Business b01s0qnm (Listen) SUN Potash of Gold SUN SUN Nearly one mile underground beneath the North Sea are vast SUN supplies of potash and polyhalite waiting to be dug up and SUN turned into valuable fertiliser. There's just one snag: the SUN planned new mine would be in the North York Moors National SUN Park, where such developments are normally prohibited. SUN Locals are taking sides for and against, as Peter Day SUN reports. SUN Producer: Mike Wendling. SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b01s39zn (Listen) SUN Preview of the week's political agenda at Westminster with SUN MPs, experts and commentators. Discussion of the issues SUN politicians are grappling with in the corridors of power. SUN SUN 22:45 What the Papers Say b01s39zq (Listen) SUN Zoe Williams of The Guardian analyses how the newspapers are SUN covering the biggest stories. SUN SUN 23:00 The Film Programme b01s0qn5 (Listen) SUN Steve Coogan as Paul Raymond; Jack Black in new movie SUN Bernie; Terence Stamp on his best films SUN SUN Steve Coogan's discusses his latest role as the Soho SUN entrepreneur, Paul Raymond, in The Look of Love, directed by SUN Michael Winterbottom. He tells Francine Stock why he's SUN attracted to characters who prove initially hard to like. SUN Bernie, directed by Richard Linklater, is also based on a SUN real person and tells the story of a Texan man accused of SUN murdering an elderly woman. Using documentary-style SUN interviews within the feature film, it's a sympathetic SUN portrayal by Jack Black. He explains why he was attracted to SUN the role and his nervousness about the reaction of the real SUN Bernie, currently serving his sentence in prison. SUN So how can biopics be both honest and innovative about their SUN subjects? Film critic Hannah McGill discusses those that SUN work and those that fail to engage. SUN And the actor Terence Stamp looks back at this career from SUN Billy Budd to The Collector, Theorem and The Limey as the SUN British Film Institute opens a retrospective on his work SUN next week. SUN Producer: Elaine Lester. SUN SUN Credits SUN Interviewed Guest: Steve Coogan SUN Interviewed Guest: Jack Black SUN Interviewed Guest: Hannah McGill SUN Presenter: Francine Stock SUN Producer: Elaine Lester SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b01s38ry (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:05 today] SUN SUN MON MONDAY 29 APRIL 2013 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b01s37mc (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed b01s0dkm (Listen) MON The Power of Oil MON MON The Power of oil - Laurie Taylor presents a special MON programme which explores the role of oil in shaping our MON society, economy and environment. He talks to James Marriott MON of Platform, co-author with Mika Minio-Paluello of 'The Oil MON Road'. Their research took them from the oil fields of the MON Caspian Sea to the refineries and financial centres of MON Northern Europe. MON They're also joined by Tim Mitchell whose work focuses on MON the relationship between democracy and oil and John Urry, MON whose latest book pioneers a sociology of energy, analysing MON our carbon addiction in the light of ever dwindling MON resources. Is an oil free society possible or desirable? MON MON Producer: Jayne Egerton. MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b01s38rw (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 05:43 on Sunday] MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01s37mf (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01s37mh (Listen) MON BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01s37mm (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b01s37mp (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01s43pv (Listen) MON A reading and a reflection to start the day with the Rev'd MON Peter Baker. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b01s46g1 (Listen) MON The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. MON MON 05:57 Weather b01s37mr (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 06:00 Today b01s46g3 (Listen) MON Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk; MON Weather; Thought for the Day. MON MON 09:00 Start the Week b01s46g5 (Listen) MON Gavin Turk on the Value of Art MON MON On Start the Week Lisa Jardine talks to the artist Gavin MON Turk about the construction of artistic myth and the MON question of authorship and authenticity. The rare book MON dealer Rick Gekoski searches for lost treasures amid tales MON of theft, forgery and destruction, while the curator Paul MON Roberts reveals the life and culture preserved in the MON volcanic devastation of Pompeii and Herculaneum. The MON everyday object - a table - is at the centre of Tanya MON Ronder's new play of belonging, identity and inheritance. MON MON Producer: Katy Hickman. MON MON Credits MON Series Editor: Rebecca Stratford MON Interviewed Guest: Gavin Turk MON Interviewed Guest: Tanya Ronder MON Interviewed Guest: Rick Gekoski MON Interviewed Guest: Paul Roberts MON Presenter: Lisa Jardine MON Producer: Katy Hickman MON MON 09:45 Book of the Week b01s8tb5 (Listen) MON Margaret Thatcher: The Authorized Biography, Episode 1 MON MON In 1997 Margaret Thatcher invited Charles Moore to write her MON biography on the understanding that it would not be MON published until after her death. This is the first volume of MON his meticulously researched portrait of the former Prime MON Minster. The reader is Nicholas Farrell. MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b01s46g7 (Listen) MON Jane Garvey presents the programme that offers a female MON perspective on the world. MON Women on comedy panel shows MON MON Comedy might make us laugh but how often is it a man making MON a joke at the expense of a woman? Having more women on TV MON panel shows might change that but it doesn’t look like it MON will happen any time soon. Mock the Week has been identified MON by one journalist as being the worst offender on the number MON of women panellists, with Never Mind the Buzzcocks coming a MON close second. Comedian Katherine Ryan is joined by Jo MON Bunting, series producer of Have I Got News For You and a TV MON freelancer, to discuss why so few women appear to make the MON comedy grade. MON MON Alison Wolf - The XX Factor MON MON In her new book, The XX Factor, Alison Wolf argues that the MON 'sisterhood' of working women is deeply divided. She says MON that those women who have managed to hold top jobs in the MON workplace are educated, full-time professionals who have put MON children on hold; their working lives - and priorities - MON increasingly resemble those of the successful men they work MON alongside. But for a second group of women this is MON unattainable - they work part-time, earn less and gain MON income and self-worth from having children young. Alison MON Wolf joins Jane Garvey to explain her views on the rise of MON these “elite working womenâ€, and how they differ from the MON rest of the female population. MON MON The XX Factor: How Working Women Are Creating A New Society MON by Alison Wolf is published by Profile books. MON MON Women and Heart Disease MON MON Coronary heart disease is the single biggest killer of women MON in the UK. More than 30,500 die from it each year and it MON kills around three times more women than breast MON cancer. However, as it is still thought of as an old man’s MON disease, women can be more likely to ignore symptoms MON or delay seeking medical help. Today the British Heart MON Foundation launches MON MON Young Adult Fiction MON MON Young adult fiction often features a first person tale of MON coming of age, set in a socially or psychologically hostile MON environment, or a dystopian world. Sales have grown by 150% MON in the last six years, in contrast to the downward trend in MON publishing. So, what is the appeal of the genre and why has MON it spread beyond teenage readers? Jane is joined by the MON broadcaster and writer Dawn O’Porter and Michelle Pauli, MON deputy editor of Guardian.co.uk books. MON MON Dawn O’Porter’s MON Miniature Bibles MON MON A new display of miniature picture Bibles designed by two MON sisters from Germany will go on public show in London’s MON Courtauld Gallery on Wednesday 1 May. The picture Bibles MON were made in the 17th century and feature intricate and MON striking engravings, which have never been seen by the MON public before. Josephine Neil has been studying them and has MON brought them into the studio to discuss with Jane. MON MON 10:45 The Cazalets b01s46g9 (Listen) MON Confusion, Episode 6 MON MON by Elizabeth Jane Howard, dramatised by Sarah Daniels MON MON A suggestion of Rachel's finds Sid basking in some MON unexpected attention - whilst Louise has to rebuff the MON advances of mother-in-law Zee's over-eager friends. MON MON Produced and Directed by Sally Avens and Marion Nancarrow MON MON 'Confusion' is the third of four compelling Cazalet novels MON by Elizabeth Jane Howard, which together give a vivid MON insight into the lives, hopes and loves of three generations MON during the Second World War and beyond. MON MON As Elizabeth Jane Howard enters her 90th Birthday year, MON Radio 4 are broadcasting dramatisations of all four novels MON between January and August 2013. MON You can catch up with series two, The Cazalets: Marking MON Time, on iplayer. MON MON The third series is set between 1942 and 1945: For the MON Cazalet family the war has brought tragedy; MON Rupert has been missing since Dunkirk and only his daughter MON Clary refuses to believe he is dead, whilst her step-mother MON Zoe has buried her hope and devotes her energy to bringing MON up their daughter, Juliet. At home, Sybil has lost her MON battle with cancer leaving Polly bereft and trying to MON comfort her father, Hugh. Even Edward seems wracked with MON doubt over whether he should give up his mistress, Diana, MON who is carrying his child and try and make a go of things MON with Villy once again. The younger generation seems as MON confused as their parents: Louise makes a hasty marriage to MON society painter Michael Hadleigh, giving up her dreams of MON being an actress, whilst Polly and Clary finally convince MON the family they can move to London, but the girls are soon MON to discover that independence and adulthood brings MON heartbreak of its own. MON When Elizabeth Jane Howard began writing the novels her aims MON were modest. "I wanted to write about my youth, and the ten MON years that straddled the Second World War. I also wanted to MON write about what domestic life was like for people at home. MON A lot has been written about the battles and the war in a MON more direct sense, but little had been said about the way MON the whole of England changed. When the war ended, everybody MON was in a different position from where they were when it MON started." MON Two decades later, Howard's quartet of books -- The Light MON Years, Marking Time, Confusion and Casting Off - charting MON the family's fortunes between 1937 and 1947 - have sold over MON a million copies. MON Martin Amis said of Elizabeth Jane Howard, "She is, with MON Iris Murdoch, the most interesting woman writer of her MON generation. An instinctivist, like Muriel Spark, she has a MON freakish and poetic eye, and a penetrating sanity." MON A star cast includes Penelope Wilton as the narrator, Pip MON Torrens, Dominic Mafham, Naomi Frederick, Helen Schlesinger, MON Raymond Coulthard, Zoe Tapper, Alix Wilton Regan, Flora MON Spencer-Longhurst and Georgia Groome. MON 'Casting Off' follows in July. MON MON Credits MON Narrator: Penelope Wilton MON Louise: Alix Wilton Regan MON Rachel: Naomi Frederick MON Sid: Helen Schlesinger MON Zee: Liza Sadovy MON Thelma: Hannah Wood MON Doddery Old Man: Robert Blythe MON Director: Sally Avens MON Director: Marion Nancarrow MON Producer: Sally Avens MON Producer: Marion Nancarrow MON Writer: Sarah Daniels MON MON 11:00 Jemima Khan and the Part-Time Wife b01s46rr (Listen) MON Jemima Khan investigates the practice of polygamy in the MON UK's Muslim community. MON MON For divorced Muslim women, finding a new spouse isn't always MON easy. But would being a part-time wife be the solution? MON MON Khan attends a Muslim matchmaking event to talk to divorced MON and widowed women about whether they would contemplate MON becoming a co-wife. She finds a number of women who are MON actively considering it. MON MON Polygamy in the UK is mostly practiced by Muslims, though MON not exclusively. Although only one marriage can be MON officially registered under British law, the Quran permits MON men to take four wives. But some Muslims believe that this MON permission needs to be interpreted in the context of 21st MON century Britain, where women enjoy equality with men and MON should not be subject to religious laws which seem to MON contradict their rights. MON MON In this programme, Jemima Khan speaks to women who have MON chosen to become second wives as well as women who have had MON polygamy imposed upon them without their consent or, MON sometimes, even their knowledge. MON MON We hear from a family barrister and a representative of the MON Sharia Council. Baroness Caroline Cox explains why she MON believes that practices such as polygamy bring suffering to MON women and must be prevented from happening; but Islamic law MON consultant, Khola Hasan, asserts that polygamy is a reality MON in Britain and must be recognised by British law. MON MON Producer: Isabel Sutton MON A Just Radio production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 11:30 Kerry's List b01s46vd (Listen) MON Episode 1 MON MON The first in a four-part sketch show co-written by and MON starring comedian and actress Kerry Godliman. MON MON Kerry is a married mother of two, a stand up comedian and MON has two children. Her life can only properly function with MON her daily list - if she didn't compile this vital list, her MON life would simply fall apart. MON MON Each week, this series looks at a different list and delves MON into Kerry's madcap world by looking at various elements of MON that week's list in sketches, narrative and stand up. MON MON In this first episode, Kerry's List includes avoiding eBay, MON de-scaling the kettle, looking good and being romantic for MON Valentine's Day, buying jeans, retrieving an asthma pump MON from the Hoover, toning her upper arms and reviewing the MON plumber! MON MON Joining Kerry is her husband Ben (played by her real husband MON Ben Abell) and her five year old daughter Elsie (played by MON Melissa Bury) together with a range of bizarre characters - MON including an enthusiastic council environment worker, some MON disgruntled satsumas, a bored therapist, a Fairy Jeanmother MON and a very keen gym instructor. MON MON Any busy parent who's ever compiled a list of their own will MON relate to Kerry Godliman's incident filled world. MON MON The cast includes David Pusey (who co-wrote the series), MON Bridget Christie, Lucy Briers, Rosie Cavaliero and Nicholas MON Le Prevost. MON MON Kerry Godliman is fast establishing herself as a highly MON skillful stand up comic and actress, from her recent MON appearances on Live at The Apollo (BBC 1), Derek (C4) and MON Our Girl (BBC 1). MON MON Producer: Paul Russell MON An Open Mike production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON Credits MON Actor: Kerry Godliman MON Actor: David Pusey MON Actor: Bridget Christie MON Actor: Lucy Briers MON Actor: Rosie Cavaliero MON Actor: Nicholas Le Prevost MON Producer: Paul Russell MON Writer: Kerry Godliman MON Writer: David Pusey MON MON 12:00 You and Yours b01s46vg (Listen) MON Consumer news with Julian Worricker. MON MON 12:57 Weather b01s37mt (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b01s46vj (Listen) MON National and international news. Listeners can share their MON views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or on twitter: #wato. MON MON 13:45 Thames Crossings b01s4740 (Listen) MON Beginnings MON MON Episode 1 (of 5): Beginnings MON MON The River Thames has run softly through Piers Plowright's MON largely unplanned life. In this five-part series, he visits MON different points along its course where his life has crossed MON the great river. MON MON In this first programme he seeks out the river's source in a MON dry field in Gloucestershire and finds his way, MON meanderingly, to Lechlade, where he spent family holidays as MON a child. Along the route, he meets people who spend their MON lives by the river - and takes the occasional dip. MON MON Produced by Alan Hall. MON A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 14:00 The Archers b01s39zj (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Sunday] MON MON 14:15 Afternoon Drama b01s4742 (Listen) MON The Interrogation - Series 2, Marc MON MON by Roy Williams MON MON 1/3 The Story of Marc. DS Max Mathews returns from MON bereavement leave to rejoin DC Sean Armitage doing what they MON do best. An ex-colleague, Marc, is suspected of domestic MON violence, but while Sean is maybe too close to the case, Max MON has an uncanny insight into the crime. MON MON Music by David Pickvance MON Directed by Jessica Dromgoole MON MON This is the second series of Roy Williams' hard hitting MON dramas of modern crime. Critical acclaim for the first MON series included this, in the Spectator... MON MON He writes about the stuff you'd rather not know, prefer not MON to think about, pretend to ignore. But it lives on with you MON in the mind. It won't let you go. By his words, the sharp, MON brittle, spot-on dialogue, he forces you to recognise the MON limitations of your experience, your understanding. It's not MON the story outline that matters, but the characterisation, MON the way the people speak, the language they use. Each of the MON characters is so clearly differentiated you know exactly MON what they look like without a detail being given to us. MON Through the conversation, the interaction, we gather in the MON back story, we get the gist. There are no easy answers. It's MON life, messy life, the life we'd rather not think about as we MON listen to the radio, doing the ironing, making marmalade, MON cocooned mostly from the nasty, brutish world dealt with by MON others on our behalf. MON MON Credits MON DS Max Matthews: Kenneth Cranham MON DC Sean Armitage: Alex Lanipekun MON Marc Johnson: Ben Crowe MON Lisa Johnson: Philippa Stanton MON Operator: Hannah Wood MON Director: Jessica Dromgoole MON Producer: Jessica Dromgoole MON Writer: Roy Williams MON Composer: David Pickvance MON MON 15:00 The 3rd Degree b01s4744 (Listen) MON Series 3, University of Leeds MON MON A lively and funny quiz show, hosted by Steve Punt, where a MON team of three University students take on a team of three of MON their professors. MON MON Coming this week from the University of Leeds, the MON specialist subjects are Civil Engineering, Popular Music MON Studies and Psychology, with questions ranging from dada and MON Dylan, to concrete and cogwheels - via penguins and postage MON stamps. MON MON Producer: David Tyler MON A Pozzitive production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 15:30 Food Programme b01s395f (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 12:32 on Sunday] MON MON 16:00 Sid James: Not Just a Dirty Laugh b01s4762 (Listen) MON Marking the centenary of Sid James, comedian Lee Mack MON examines recently discovered archives and rare recordings MON offering a unique insight into the actors lesser known work MON on radio, stage and screen. MON MON Actors Bernard Cribbins, Lance Percival and Liz Fraser MON reveal their own experiences of working with Sid and we hear MON from his daughter, the author, Reina James who provides the MON programme with previously unheard material from the family MON archives of her father's years in South Africa. MON MON Throughout the programme Christopher Fairbank provides the MON voice of Sid for sketches found in the BBC's written MON archives and quotes excerpts from interviews given during MON his extraordinary life. MON MON Born in Johannesburg in May 1913, Sid James arrived in MON Britain in 1946 and came to prominence as sidekick to ground MON breaking comedy actor Tony Hancock. He later became a MON household name as the star of the Carry On series of films MON MON As Lee Mack discovers there's more skill to Sid James' MON performances than is often evident. He'd already made MON numerous screen appearances before Hancock and the Carry Ons MON with straight roles and comic support in films by Powell and MON Pressburger and Ealing Comedies. His early radio work MON includes parts alongside Peter Sellers and Dennis Price, on MON stage he performed in Guys and Dolls and starred in Citizen MON James his own television situation comedy scripted for him MON by Galton and Simpson. MON MON Presenting a fascinating collection of extracts never before MON broadcast on radio this documentary puts the emphasis on the MON unfamiliar with interviewees adding another dimension to MON Sid's story by revealing his early career and assessing his MON copious talents. MON MON Presented by Lee Mack, with Christopher Fairbank as the MON voice of Sid. MON MON Written by Alan Stafford and produced in Salford by Stephen MON Garner MON MON HIDDEN SID MON No skeletons in the closet, but a treasure trove of audio MON delights, promises writer Alan Stafford… MON MON It was always the intention of this centenary celebration to MON present the less familiar side of Sid James. The excellent MON documentary The Many Faces of Sid James on BBC2 (6th April MON 2013) had a rich archive of Sid, a wide range of MON interviewees, an hour to do it in, and the kind of budget MON that we on Radio 4 can only dream of. MON MON How could we, a mere 30-minute programme, pretend to be MON anything other than a highly abridged pale imitation? only MON with a combination of creative thought, delving and a bit of MON luck. With all three of these (especially the luck) in MON abundance, I think we’ve pulled it off handsomely. MON MON Firstly we decided to steer clear of the gossip. It’s a MON hundredth birthday party and no time for muck-raking. There MON are two exceptional biographies of Sid, by Cliff Goodwin and MON Robert Ross. I highly recommend them both. Understandably, MON both books investigate Sid’s private life – and, on one MON issue in particular, they present widely differing versions MON of events. If this is an area that interests you, then read MON the books. But read both of them. MON MON The one element I thought The Many Faces of Sid James lacked MON was Sid James himself. In all the documentaries that have MON been made about Sid, it soon becomes clear that he was a MON reluctant interviewee. A few short clips exist, but they MON are often rather uncomfortable affairs. However, both Cliff MON Goodwin and Robert Ross succeeded in assembling an MON impressive array of Sid James quotes, many of them from MON press interviews. Collecting these together, one quickly MON learns a lot about Sid James’ attitude to work and home life MON and, above all, his considerable modesty about his talent. MON MON We therefore decided to pepper our documentary with Sid’s MON actual words, delivered by actor Christopher Fairbank, who MON played Sid on stage in the National Theatre tour of Terry MON Johnson’s Cleo, Camping, Emmanuelle and Dick. MON MON Having made the decision to totally avoid over-familiar MON clips from Hancock’s Half-Hour and the Carry-Ons, we sought MON out some rare archive. Reina James, Sid’s daughter from his MON second marriage, alerted us to some acetate discs recorded MON in South Africa in the early 1940s, before Sid had even come MON to Britain. These discs (now preserved in the British MON Library’s sound archive) were home recordings of Sid MON rehearsing his lines, singing and generally mucking about. MON An incredible glimpse into an emerging talent. MON MON We also tracked down the script of one of Sid’s earliest TV MON comedy appearances. You may think that Galton and Simpson MON were the first to recognise Sid’s comic potential, but Frank MON Muir and Denis Norden employed him in their debut TV show MON Here’s Television back in 1951. Sid plays three roles – the MON villainous El Diablo in a twee musical comedy, inventor Mr MON Threep, and the trainer of a boxing champ (Bill Fraser). MON Our programme recreates the boxing scene, replacing beefy MON Bill Fraser with lithe Lee Mack. MON MON Throughout Sid’s life he never lost contact with his South MON African roots. He returned there to make a couple of films MON and, in the early 1970s, recorded a radio comedy in London MON especially for broadcast on Springbok Radio in South Africa. MON This was a thrilling find. I was told that Sid had once MON been offered a part in a Harold Pinter play which, MON regrettably, never came to pass. If he’d done it, it may MON have sounded a lot like this. Called A Dead Liberty by Alan MON Gosling, this black comedy co-stars Evelyn Garrett (also MON South African born) who is almost certainly the Evie Garrett MON who went on to work with Harry Hill and Little Britain. MON This is a totally different style of comedy acting from Sid MON – inconsequential lines with a low-key delivery – and I MON absolutely love it! MON MON Sid’s actual centenary is on the 8th of May. Our programme MON jumped the gun by a week-and-a-half and The Many Faces of MON Sid James did it by just over a month. Hopefully, our show MON will still be on BBC iPlayer on May 8th. In which case, MON please give it a listen while raising your glass to 100 MON years of the likeable, loveable and MON not-just-a-dirty-laughable Sid James. MON MON 16:30 Digital Human b01s4764 (Listen) MON Series 3, Isolation MON MON Aleks Krotoski explores our lives in the digital world. This MON week she asks, are our connected modern lives making us MON lonelier than ever? MON MON 17:00 PM b01s4766 (Listen) MON Full coverage and analysis of the day's news. MON MON 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01s37mw (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 18:30 The Unbelievable Truth b01s4768 (Listen) MON Series 11, Episode 4 MON MON David Mitchell hosts the panel game in which four comedians MON are encouraged to tell lies and compete against one another MON to see how many items of truth they're able to smuggle past MON their opponents. MON MON Henning Wehn, Katherine Ryan, Graeme Garden and Lloyd MON Langford are the panellists obliged to talk with deliberate MON inaccuracy on subjects as varied as geese, horses, MON advertising and Madonna. MON MON The show is devised by Graeme Garden and Jon Naismith, the MON team behind Radio 4's I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue. MON MON Producer: Jon Naismith MON A Random Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 19:00 The Archers b01s47bl (Listen) MON Neil and Christine talk through some options. MON MON Producer: Vanessa Whitburn MON MON 19:15 Front Row b01s483g (Listen) MON Arts news, interviews and reviews with John Wilson, MON including Cultural Exchange: Oscar-winning director Bernardo MON Bertolucci nominates a favourite film. MON MON Producer Rebecca Nicholson. MON MON 19:45 The Cazalets b01s46g9 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] MON MON 20:00 How to Run Europe b01s483j (Listen) MON Napoleon's Way MON MON In the last of three programmes, Anne McElvoy explores the MON challenges of governing the peoples of Europe across three MON of the continent's great empires ...and the parallels today. MON To conclude the series, Anne is in Brussels and Paris to MON explore the empire of Napoleon Bonaparte. MON MON The Arc de Triomphe, symbol of Napoleon's power and MON victorious military exploits, stands proudly at the heart of MON Paris, the centre of the Corsican-born French Emperor's vast MON territory. At its peak, France's First Empire comprised 130 MON departements, from the Bouches de l'Elbe near Hamburg to the MON Bouches de l'Ebre in northern Spain and Rome in the MON south-east. Joining Anne at the Arc de Triomphe is Professor MON Michael Broers of Oxford University and together, at the MON Fondation Napoleon and at the Conseil d'Etat, still France's MON focus of executive legal power, they unpick the complexities MON of governing a huge and disparate empire. MON MON Famed for his administrative and legal reforms, the Code MON Napoleon, the French emperor has bequeathed a legacy of MON standardisation that remains today the model not only in MON France but - in different guises - across the continent he MON once bestrode. But how did he achieve it, and were the MON challenges he faced in bringing 'harmonisation' to Europe in MON any way analogous to the frustrations of 'straight bananas' MON and the like that annoy so many today? MON MON Producers Simon Elmes & Georgia Catt. MON MON 20:30 Crossing Continents b01s0qmq (Listen) MON Belarus's university in exile MON MON Belarus has been described as the last dictatorship in MON Europe. Few dare speak out against President Alexander MON Lukashenko and his ruling elite. But the opposition has MON found a way of making its voice heard through an academic MON community which has taken refuge abroad. MON MON Lucy Ash visits the European Humanities University which MON teaches Belarusian students on its campus in neighbouring MON Lithuania. She talks to teachers and students, many of whom MON commute back and forth across the border. Is the EHU devoted MON to intellectual freedom and training future leaders of MON Belarus or is it a "trampoline for emigration" to the west? MON MON Producer: Tim Mansel. MON MON 21:00 Material World b01s0qn7 (Listen) MON Bovine TB; Big Cat; Shark teeth MON MON DEFRA's Chief Scientific Advisor meets with scientists at MON the Royal Society to discuss future strategies in MON controlling bovine TB. Ian Boyd has called together sixty MON leading experts in bovine TB with the aim of developing new MON strategies in controlling the disease. He speaks to Quentin MON Cooper from the meeting. Also on the programme Christl MON Donnelly, Professor of Statistical Epidemiology at Imperial MON College London, and James Wood Alborada Professor of Equine MON and Farm Animal Science at Cambridge, both of whom were at MON the meeting. MON MON The rediscovery of a mystery animal in the Bristol Museum MON and Art Gallery's underground storeroom proves that a MON non-native 'big cat' prowled the British countryside at the MON turn of the last century. When the skeleton of the animal MON was compared to the mounted skin, researchers realised that MON the description in the records was wrong and that it was in MON fact a Canadian lynx. The researchers studied the teeth of MON the lynx and looked at strontium isotopes in the bones to MON find out where it lived. Dr Ross Barnett, from the MON University of Durham and the Natural History Museum of MON Denmark at the University of Copenhagen, tells us more. MON MON Shark teeth found at the bottom of aquariums are being used MON by scientists at Birmingham University to find out about MON biological diversity in ancient seas. Ultimately the work MON could help predict what will happen to life in the currently MON warming seas. Sharks lose teeth regularly and researchers MON think that clues to marine biological diversity over MON millions of years may be locked up in sharks' teeth. MON Studying oxygen isotopes, which are incorporated into MON sharks' teeth as they develop, can reveal the temperature of MON the seawater the shark lived in at the time. Dr. Ivan MON Sansom, a Palaeobiologist, is leading the project. MON Bovine TB MON MON Today at the Royal Society in London, DEFRA have been MON holding a think tank – bringing together some 60 leading MON experts in bovine TB and related areas in the hope of MON developing new approaches and strategies. MON Big Cat MON MON The rediscovery of a mystery animal in the Bristol Museum MON and Art Gallery's underground storeroom proves that a MON non-native 'big cat' prowled the British countryside at the MON turn of the last century. MON Shark teeth MON MON Researchers think that clues to marine biological diversity MON over millions of years may be locked up in sharks’ teeth. MON MON 21:30 Start the Week b01s46g5 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 21:58 Weather b01s37my (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b01s483n (Listen) MON In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. MON MON 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01s483q (Listen) MON This Is Where I Am, Episode 6 MON MON Abdi and Debs have had their first awkward disagreement when MON he asks for her help to educate his silent daughter and she MON panics about the extent to which this little family are MON becoming dependent on her. MON MON But when Abdi returns to his flat to face a crisis, she is MON the first person he turns to and she responds immediately. MON MON Read by Maureen Beattie and Jude Akuwidike. MON MON Abridged and produced by Jane Marshall MON A Jane Marshall production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 23:00 Word of Mouth b01s0b02 (Listen) MON Instructions Instructions MON MON Michael Rosen opens some flat-pack furniture to discover why MON instruction manuals are so hard to follow. Are they simply MON badly written or do they reveal something fundamental about MON how words capture movement. Beset by orphaned bolts and MON extraneous screws Michael plums for the latter and invites MON guests in to help explain the conundrum. He tracks down the MON company that has written the instructions to his bedside MON cabinet ;delving into their world he gets an insight to MON these experts who make a living from developing the MON 'perfect' instructions for us .But are words alone simply MON not suffice - are words and the language sometimes a problem MON if trying do make complex things ? Would we better off MON without words and have image alone - does that work ? And MON what about those who suffer from dyslexia how do they cope ? MON Whether you follow every word or simply loathe and chuck MON them away, instructions and manuals are a powerful influence MON on our lives and something most companies and organisations MON are starting to realise they need to get right . MON MON Presenter : Michael Rosen MON Producer : Perminder Khatkar. MON MON 23:30 No Triumph, No Tragedy b01m4c77 (Listen) MON Margaret Maughan MON MON When Margaret Maughan won Britain's first-ever gold medal in MON the Paralympics, there was no crowd, no podium, and almost MON no Margaret! They had to drag her off the coach going back MON to the rudimentary Olympic village. As no one was keeping MON the score in the archery competition, she had no idea she'd MON won, let alone the fact that there was a ceremony. MON MON The incident was typical of the first Paralympics which took MON place in Rome in nineteen sixty. Paralympic villages these MON days are fully wheelchair accessible, each athlete has an MON assistant to help with any special needs, and athletes can MON get advice about anything from diet to the very latest MON equipment. In Margaret's first games the accommodation was MON on stilts, and they had to be carried in and out by MON soldiers. Undignified it might have been, but Margaret MON didn't seem to mind! It was typical of the times, and in No MON Triumph, No Tragedy, Margaret, now eighty-five, tells her MON story with the laconic acceptance of her generation. MON MON It had been typical of her treatment since a road accident MON in Malawi only a year earlier left her paralysed and in a MON wheelchair. After being flown home, she was taken to Stoke MON Mandeville Hospital, then more or less just a row of huts, MON though offering what was at the time the most sophisticated MON treatment around for those with spinal injuries. It was run MON by Ludwig Guttmann, who Margaret clearly greatly admired, MON even though he ran the place a bit like an army camp. MON Discipline was tough; trips to the local pub which got out MON of hand were greeted with a firm dressing-down, and threats MON that you might have to leave. MON MON He would put up with no feeling sorry for yourself, and it MON was Guttman who decreed that sport was therapy, and turned MON what began as sports days into the start of an international MON phenomenon--the Paralympics. A few hundred competitors went MON to the first games: now it's around four thousand. Then, MON hardly anyone noticed them go; now, there are hour upon hour MON of television coverage. Then, they begged time off work, if MON they were lucky enough to have a job; now people like Oscar MON Pistorius and our own Tanni Gray Thompson are household MON names. MON MON But Margaret's story shows how these rudimentary games were MON symptomatic of attitudes back in the fifties and sixties. MON She might have got a gold medal in Rome, but when they put MON her on the train back to her home town in Preston, she and MON her wheelchair had to travel in the guard's van. Although MON she was a qualified teacher, it was assumed that no way MON could she control a class: she was offered a job stamping MON cards; there were no benefits, and no anti-discrimination MON legislation; but Margaret Maughan wonders on the programme MON whether present generations had the same get up and go as MON she and her friends. She's delighted that the Paralympics is MON now a major international festival, but she speculates MON whether some of the camaraderie has been lost along the way. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 30 APRIL 2013 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b01s37nv (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:30 Book of the Week b01s8tb5 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01s37nx (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01s37nz (Listen) TUE BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01s37p1 (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b01s37p3 (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01s4g6r (Listen) TUE A reading and a reflection to start the day with the Rev'd TUE Peter Baker. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b01s4g6t (Listen) TUE The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. TUE TUE 06:00 Today b01s4g6w (Listen) TUE Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, TUE Weather, Yesterday in Parliament and Thought for the Day. TUE TUE 09:00 Syria: Can Aid Meet the Challenge? b01s4vvd (Listen) TUE Edward Stourton reports from Jordan on the international aid TUE response to the Syrian refugee crisis and how far politics TUE is compromising humanitarian action. TUE TUE The number of Syrian refugees in Jordan is expected to TUE triple from a little under 400,000 to 1.2 million by the end TUE of this year. Of these, it is projected that 400,000 will be TUE living in camps and the other two thirds in host TUE communities. TUE TUE The Syrian emergency poses a profound challenge to aid TUE agencies operating in the region, and humanitarian TUE principles such as transparency, impartiality and TUE accountability are being put to the test. Fundraising is TUE also difficult and agencies on the ground in Lebanon and TUE Jordan talk of the situation reaching a tipping point, as TUE already thin resources are being stretched to breaking point TUE by the refugee influx, exacerbating existing tensions. TUE TUE Edward Stourton follows Islamic Relief, Oxfam, Medecins Sans TUE Frontiers (MSF) and the United Nations Refugee Council as TUE they respond to the crisis for an insider's view of their TUE debates and decisions. TUE TUE The programme begins at an Islamic Relief food distribution TUE point at the Prince Hassan football stadium in Irbid, where TUE Edward meets some of the refugee families who have come TUE seeking help. TUE TUE In Zataari camp near the Syrian border, he talks to TUE residents of the camp about their experiences. In Zataari, TUE now home to more than 100,000 Syrian refugees, tensions are TUE rising over the lack of aid and inhumane living conditions. TUE In Amman, Edward asks Andrew Harper, the UN's head of its TUE Syria response, whether this is a reflection of the UN's TUE failure to adequately deal with a refugee crisis of this TUE scale. TUE TUE Producer: Eve Streeter TUE A Blakeway production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 09:45 Book of the Week b01sbgbx (Listen) TUE Margaret Thatcher: The Authorized Biography, Episode 2 TUE TUE The reader is Nicholas Farrell. TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b01s4g70 (Listen) TUE Pink Martini; Lauren Beukes TUE TUE Pink Martini perform live in the studio. Lauren Beukes on TUE her book The Shining Girls. Jane Garvey presents the TUE programme that offers a female perspective on the world. TUE TUE 10:45 The Cazalets b01s4g72 (Listen) TUE Confusion, Episode 7 TUE TUE by Elizabeth Jane Howard, dramatised by Sarah Daniels TUE TUE Zoe and Jack's time together is running out, but for Louise TUE things are about to change in an unexpectedly happy way. TUE TUE Produced and Directed by Sally Avens and Marion Nancarrow TUE TUE 11:00 Return to Japan b01s4vdt (Listen) TUE The BBC Philharmonic was in Japan when the earthquake hit in TUE 2011, and they were forced to abandon the country. Now they TUE are returning for an emotional tour of the cities they TUE should have visited. TUE TUE In 2011, as one member of the orchestra put it, "We were TUE having a very successful tour and then it shook'. TUE TUE The musicians were on the top of a suspension bridge when TUE the earthquake happened, and felt lucky to escape with their TUE lives. When the seriousness of the situation at the TUE Fukushima nuclear plant was made public, the decision was TUE taken to leave the country as quickly as possible. Many of TUE the musicians felt that they were abandoning the Japanese, TUE and were reluctant to go. Now they have a chance to return TUE to Japan with the same repertoire as the original tour. TUE TUE How will the musicians react to going back to a country TUE where many of them had been deeply upset by the experiences TUE of 2011? And does their music help a nation still coming to TUE terms with the traumatic events of 2011? TUE TUE We join the BBC Philharmonic in Tokyo as they prepare to TUE play the music of both sadness and survival throughout the TUE concert halls of Japan. TUE TUE Producer Mark Rickards. TUE TUE 11:30 Richard Wagner - Power, Sex and Revolution b01s4g74 (Listen) TUE Episode 1 TUE TUE Mention his name and images flicker of dwarves, flying TUE maidens, magic swords and bronze breast-plates, all of it TUE served in vast portions to test stamina of audience and TUE singers alike. But what's really going on in Wagner?Two TUE hundred years after the composer's birth, Paul Mason takes a TUE fresh look at the man whose music has gripped him for as TUE long as he can remember. The megalithic fifteen hours of The TUE Ring cycle dominate our view of Wagner, but behind it lies a TUE man whose complex personality leaves us still struggling to TUE understand him. He was a revolutionary, not just in music TUE but also in politics, even finding himself a wanted man in TUE exile. He was determined to transform drama into something TUE which would be a powerful force in society, and a man driven TUE by ambition to revitalise a Germany which he saw as TUE critically unwell. And there were the darker instincts, not TUE least an attitude to racial purity which leaves deep TUE questions about his validity as an artist.In the first TUE programme Mason peers into the murky depths of a tale of TUE desire and obsession. 'Tristan and Isolde' takes us deep TUE into the mind of its composer, a man with powerful sexual TUE urges of his own, and whose approach to life was totally TUE reshaped by his discovery of one of the greatest TUE philosophers of his age. We hear from those who have sung TUE and studied the work, and also a man so captivated by the TUE power of opera, and Wagner in particular, that he built his TUE own opera house in which to stage these giant and TUE ever-challenging works. TUE TUE 12:00 You and Yours b01s4g76 (Listen) TUE Call You and Yours TUE TUE Consumer phone-in with Julian Worricker. TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b01s37p5 (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b01s4g78 (Listen) TUE National and international news. Listeners can share their TUE views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or on twitter: #wato. TUE TUE 13:45 Thames Crossings b01s5d47 (Listen) TUE Learning TUE TUE Episode 2 (of 5): Learning TUE TUE The River Thames has run softly through Piers Plowright's TUE largely unplanned life. In this five-part series, he visits TUE different points along its course where his life has crossed TUE the great river. TUE TUE In today's programme he returns to Oxford where, fifty years TUE ago, he studied history. He swims in his favourite spot at TUE Port Meadow, meets a retired boat builder and talks to TUE Sarah, the lock-keeper at Godstow. TUE TUE Produced by Alan Hall TUE A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b01s47bl (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 14:15 Afternoon Drama b00x923h (Listen) TUE Believe Me TUE TUE Believe Me by Stephanie Dale TUE TUE When art teacher Rachel bumps into chef Tyrone on his first TUE day in London it is the start of a sunny, passionate love TUE affair, an affair that will take them into much darker TUE places. TUE TUE Director: David Hunter TUE TUE When art teacher Rachel, walking home festooned with TUE end-of-term gifts from her pupils, bumps into Tyrone on his TUE first day in London it is the beginning of a passionate love TUE affair. Soon it makes sense for Tyrone, now working as a TUE chef in a local up-market cafe, to move into Rachel's flat. TUE But it's not long before there are tiny bits of grit TUE starting to despoil the love oyster. As things get more TUE serious issues of control, jealousy, trust and violence rise TUE to the surface in this thriller exploring a lesser-known TUE side of domestic abuse. TUE TUE Further Information: TUE BELIEVE ME deals with material that is explored later this TUE evening at 8 O'Clock in the Radio 4 documentary THE LAST TUE REFUGE. For more information follow the link. TUE TUE Credits TUE Rachel: Naomi Frederick TUE Tyrone: Alex Lanipekun TUE Tasha: Leah Brotherhead TUE WPC: Sally Orrock TUE Policeman: Lloyd Thomas TUE Prosecutor: Sean Baker TUE Director: David Hunter TUE Writer: Stephanie Dale TUE TUE 15:00 Making History b01s4g7b (Listen) TUE History magazine programme. TUE TUE 15:30 Costing the Earth b01s4g7d (Listen) TUE Amphibian Extinction TUE TUE Frogs, toads and newts are becoming a less frequent sight in TUE our ponds and gardens. Globally 40% of amphibians - almost TUE 2000 species - are threatened with extinction according to TUE the IUCN red list. Some scientists even say we're on the TUE verge of the 6th mass extinction. Yet with things at such an TUE alarming state Tom Heap asks what's being done to save these TUE creatures and if it's too little too late? TUE TUE Amphibians are a key part of the food chain but not only do TUE they control less favoured bugs, they have also been TUE described as 'hopping pharmacies' carrying important TUE chemical compounds on their skin which have been used for TUE medicines. If they disappear so does that link. TUE TUE Tom hears about the different factors which are impacting on TUE numbers - including habitat loss, climate change and TUE diseases such as chytrid fungus and ranavirus. Andrew TUE Blaustein at the University of Oregon is currently doing TUE research to find out why some species are more vulnerable to TUE chytrid than others but has also found parasites causing TUE mutations in frogs nearby - including some with up to 15 TUE limbs. TUE TUE Meanwhile, of the UK's seven native amphibian species, one- TUE the pool frog - has already died out. Tom travels to the TUE secret location where they've been reintroduced from Sweden TUE to find out how well they're doing and what can be learnt TUE from this near-miss. Tom also gets his hands dirty on toad TUE patrol, helping them cross busy roads as they come out of TUE hibernation and return to their ponds for breeding. As he TUE asks motorists to apply their brakes he also asks just how TUE much this will do to halt their decline. TUE TUE Producer: Anne-Marie Bullock. TUE TUE 16:00 Word of Mouth b01s4g7g (Listen) TUE Accents Will Happen TUE TUE We explore the impact accent and dialect has on life TUE opportunities. Starting with the very young where Michael TUE Rosen uncovers new research in babies and toddlers; going on TUE to explore how some of us manage to retain and lose accents TUE and why some of us simply don't like the way we speak and TUE sound. TUE TUE Presenter: Michael Rosen TUE Producer :Perminder Khatkar. TUE TUE 16:30 Great Lives b01s4g7j (Listen) TUE Series 30, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle TUE TUE Broadcaster Gyles Brandreth nominates Sir Arthur Conan Doyle TUE as his "Great Life". Matthew Parris chairs, assisted by TUE biographer Andrew Lycett. TUE TUE Conan Doyle is best known as the creator of Sherlock Holmes. TUE This always irritated him, and he tried to kill off the TUE great detective, only to bring him back by popular demand. TUE But there was more to Conan Doyle than Holmes. A sportsman TUE who helped bring skiing to the Alps, a campaigner against TUE the Belgian atrocities in the Congo, and most startlingly, a TUE convinced spiritualist who became embroiled in a public TUE argument with Harry Houdini over whether it was possible to TUE make contact with the dead. TUE TUE The paradox of Conan Doyle's life was that, having invented TUE the most rational, cerebral fictional character of all time, TUE he himself embraced superstition and behaved in ways that TUE caused even his allies to despair of his credulity. TUE TUE Credits TUE Interviewed Guest: Gyles Brandreth TUE Interviewed Guest: Andrew Lycett TUE Presenter: Matthew Parris TUE Producer: Jolyon Jenkins TUE TUE 17:00 PM b01s4g7l (Listen) TUE Coverage and analysis of the day's news. TUE TUE 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01s37p9 (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 18:30 Isy Suttie's Love Letters b01rlngr (Listen) TUE Episode 1 TUE TUE Isy Suttie (Dobby from Channel 4's Peep Show and double TUE British Comedy Award nominee) returns to BBC Radio 4 with TUE these unique tales, recounting a series of love stories TUE affecting people she's known throughout her life, told TUE partly through song. TUE TUE Sometimes Isy has merely observed other people's love lives; TUE quite often she's intervened, changing the action TUE dramatically - for better or worse. Intertwined within these TUE stories are related real life anecdotes from Isy's own, TUE often disastrous, love life. TUE TUE In this first episode, Isy and her first ever boyfriend, TUE Darren Jones, conspire to write love notes that bring two TUE shy bell-ringers together, Peter and Anne. TUE TUE With her multi-character and vocal skills, plus her guitar, TUE Isy creates a hilarious and deeply moving world, sharing TUE with us her lessons in life and love. TUE TUE "A voice you want to swim in" The Independent TUE TUE Produced by Lianne Coop. TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b01s4g7q (Listen) TUE Matt receives some interesting information. TUE TUE Producer: Vanessa Whitburn TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b01s4g7s (Listen) TUE With Mark Lawson, including Cultural Exchange: writer and TUE performer Meera Syal discusses To Kill A Mockingbird, by TUE Harper Lee. TUE TUE Producer Nicki Paxman. TUE TUE 19:45 The Cazalets b01s4g72 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] TUE TUE 20:00 Constant Cravings: Does Food Addiction Exist? TUE b01s4g7v (Listen) TUE Could obesity, in some cases, result from an addiction, and TUE if so, do we need to change the way we treat it? TUE TUE When we think about addiction, drugs, alcohol or gambling TUE come to mind. Though hardly uncommon, many people will go TUE their whole lives without ever even dabbling in them. But TUE could the everyday act of eating also be addictive? In TUE excess, drugs, alcohol and gambling can cause massive TUE physical and psychological harm, cutting across class, sex TUE and age. But so can excessive eating. And if we're to TUE believe alarming predictions about rising obesity levels, TUE then perhaps we need to consider looking at overeating from TUE a different angle. TUE TUE Researchers around the world are asking the same question: TUE is overeating a compulsive behaviour that exploits the same TUE biological mechanisms we see in people addicted to drugs or TUE alcohol? Is there such a thing as food addiction and how TUE addictive are certain foods? In, Constant Cravings: Does TUE Food Addiction Exist, Sally Marlow, a researcher in alcohol TUE addiction at London's Institute of Psychiatry, explores the TUE latest evidence underpinning the scientific basis for TUE overeating, and asks just how radical should the solutions TUE be? TUE TUE In 2012, NeuroFAST, an EU research project began TUE co-ordinating data on the relationship between overeating TUE and addiction. Its mission is to achieve consensus on how TUE overeating should be classified clinically, which might then TUE lead to major shifts in treatment, public policy and TUE attitudes to obesity. TUE TUE Few of us, if we're honest, would consider obesity as little TUE more than self-inflicted. And it's how many of us used to TUE think about other addictions. Yet now we know that an TUE individual's choices are influenced by a host of biological TUE and environmental mechanisms: genes, brain chemistry and TUE family history. Might overeating share these mechanisms? TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b01s4g7x (Listen) TUE Peter White with news and information for blind and TUE partially sighted people. TUE TUE 21:00 All in the Mind b01s4g7z (Listen) TUE Claudia Hammond presents a series that explores the limits TUE and potential of the human mind. TUE TUE 21:30 Syria: Can Aid Meet the Challenge? b01s4vvd (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b01s37pc (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b01s4g81 (Listen) TUE In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. TUE TUE 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01s4g83 (Listen) TUE This Is Where I Am, Episode 7 TUE TUE Abdi has some good news so he takes Debs to a traditional TUE Glasgow pub to celebrate. But his encounter with the TUE Scottish police has prompted more memories of his time at TUE the Kenyan refugee camp at Dadaab. TUE TUE Read by Maureen Beattie and Jude Akuwidike. TUE TUE Abridged and produced by Jane Marshall TUE A Jane Marshall production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 23:00 Absolutely Delish b01s4gfq (Listen) TUE Home Alone TUE TUE By Rose Heiney. TUE TUE Daisy Haggard stars as a hostess desperate to throw the most TUE sophisticated New Year's Eve dinner party ever. If she can TUE get this right then perhaps the rest of her new year will be TUE equally successful. But despite her meticulous planning, TUE things go a bit pear-shaped. And pears aren't even on the TUE menu. TUE TUE Lucy ... Daisy Haggard TUE Man ... Ben Crowe TUE Beth ... Phillipa Stanton TUE Jessica ... Hannah Wood TUE Estate Agent ... Michael Shelford TUE Mum ... Joanna Brookes TUE Marcus ... Will Howard TUE TUE Director ... Helen Perry TUE TUE Actress Daisy Haggard is best known for her comedy roles in TUE TV series 'Psychoville,' and 'Episodes'. TUE TUE Rose Heiney won the 4Talent Award for Best New Comedy Writer TUE in 2008 and was a Broadcast Hotshot in 2009. She writes for TUE Channel 4's Fresh Meat and her first novel, The Days of Judy TUE B, was nominated for The Times/South Bank Show Breakthrough TUE Award and is currently being adapted by Rose for TV. TUE TUE Credits TUE Lucy: Daisy Haggard TUE Man: Ben Crowe TUE Beth: Philippa Stanton TUE Jessica: Hannah Wood TUE Estate Agent: Michael Shelford TUE Mum: Joanna Brookes TUE Marcus: Will Howard TUE Director: Helen Perry TUE Producer: Helen Perry TUE Writer: Rose Heiney TUE TUE 23:30 No Triumph, No Tragedy b01m9n33 (Listen) TUE Mark Goffeney TUE TUE When, aged eight, Mark Goffeney strolled into a guitar shop TUE to enrol for lessons, the owner thought he was being kidded. TUE Mark had no arms, the result of an unexplained birth defect. TUE He didn't even have prosthetic limbs, because he had found TUE they were more trouble than they were worth. It's a measure TUE of Mark's persuasiveness, even then, that the shop TUE proprietor took him on as a pupil. He taught him to tune and TUE play the guitar with his feet, laying it in front of him on TUE the floor. He's been a highly respected rock musician for TUE more than twenty years, running his own bands, and touring TUE the world. TUE TUE This was only the start of Mark's career of choices which TUE apparently would make life as difficult for him as possible. TUE In No Triumph, No Tragedy, he talks with humour, warmth, and TUE practical common sense, about the philosophy that there's TUE usually a solution, if you think hard enough about it. Only TUE Mark, for instance, could choose tiling roofs as an early TUE occupation. When asked how he got the tiles up there, he TUE seemed faintly surprised. It involved, logically enough, TUE getting down on the ground, manoeuvring them with his feet TUE into a container that had a strap or a rope, and then a lot TUE of wriggling till he got it on his back. Simple enough! TUE TUE He used similar techniques bringing up his three children. TUE He'd always done his share, but when the marriage broke up, TUE amicably but irrevocably, his former wife asked him if he TUE would take custody of the children while she put herself TUE through college! They preferred to live with him, she said. TUE He did it without a second thought, devising ways of TUE lifting, carrying and feeding them. The only problem, he TUE says, was fighting off the older women who wanted to rescue TUE them from his tender mercies. His life as a touring musician TUE was a bigger handicap to childcare than his so-called TUE "handicap". "It's hard to check kids are doing their TUE homework in the wings, when you're onstage doing a gig," he TUE explained. TUE TUE Recently, Mark has become something of an online sensation, TUE with his act receiving hundreds of thousands of "hits" on TUE YouTube. Is there a danger that people are more concerned TUE with how he plays than what he plays? He says he doesn't TUE care, as long as they end up hearing the music. He drives, TUE as he does most things, with his feet. It works fine, but TUE it's also led to the biggest scare of his life. Late one TUE night he was stopped by a cop. He then heard the dreaded TUE words: "put your hands out of the window; then get out of TUE the car". He tried explaining that he had no hands. The cop TUE said he'd shoot him if he didn't put his hands out of the TUE window. It was only the word "disabled", which Mark doesn't TUE use very often, which finally persuaded the officer to TUE check. "So how was I supposed to know," he said grumpily. TUE Listening to Mark Goffeney on No Triumph, No Tragedy should TUE avoid such mistakes in the future. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 01 MAY 2013 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b01s37q8 (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:30 Book of the Week b01sbgbx (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01s37qb (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01s37qd (Listen) WED BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01s37qg (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b01s37qj (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01s4q5b (Listen) WED A reading and a reflection to start the day with the Rev'd WED Peter Baker. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b01s4q5d (Listen) WED The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. WED WED 06:00 Today b01s4q5g (Listen) WED News and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, Yesterday WED in Parliament, Weather, Thought for the Day. WED WED 09:00 Midweek b01s4q5j (Listen) WED Lively, diverse conversation as Libby Purves meets actor WED Brian Cox and singer June Tabor. WED WED Credits WED Interviewed Guest: Brian Cox WED Interviewed Guest: June Tabor WED Presenter: Libby Purves WED Producer: Rebecca Stratford WED WED 09:45 Book of the Week b01sbgfp (Listen) WED Margaret Thatcher: The Authorized Biography, Episode 3 WED WED The reader is Nicholas Farrell. WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b01s4q6f (Listen) WED Jenni Murray presents the programme that offers a female WED perspective on the world. WED WED 10:45 The Cazalets b01s4qb2 (Listen) WED Confusion, Episode 8 WED WED by Elizabeth Jane Howard, dramatised by Sarah Daniels WED WED Polly plucks up the courage to tell Archie she loves him, WED whilst Hugo convinces Louise they must do the same with WED Michael. None can foresee what will result. WED WED Produced and Directed by Sally Avens and Marion Nancarrow WED WED 11:00 The Big Ditch - How the Panama Canal Changed the World WED b01s0dk1 (Listen) WED Episode 2 WED WED In this final episode, Jonny Dymond (BBC Washington DC WED correspondent) continues his passage from the Pacific to WED Atlantic side of the Panama Canal, exploring the global WED impact of the so-called Big Ditch. A century after it was WED constructed, Dymond explores the present and future of the WED isthmus nation of Panama and the trade route of which it is WED the custodian. WED WED How has Panama fared since full control of running the canal WED was bestowed on it? Dymond broaches the tricky relationship WED between the United States and Panama over the Canal Zone. WED More widely, was America's relinquishing the canal part of a WED wider trend that has seen US influence in Latin America WED decline? At the same time, Dymond discovers growing China's WED interests in the region - Chinese-backed plans for a new WED canal in Nicaragua. WED WED Has the US taken its eye off the Americas, distracted by WED other concerns? This Big Ditch marked the beginning of the WED American century - do the signs on the isthmus suggest that WED the superpower that was made here is on a gradual retreat? WED WED Producer: Dom Byrne WED A Blakeway production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 11:30 Wordaholics b01s6c9z (Listen) WED Series 2, Episode 4 WED WED Gyles Brandreth chairs the word-obsessed comedy panel game WED where this week Katy Brand & Alex Horne compete with Richard WED Herring & Natalie Haynes for wordy supremacy. WED WED This week Richard Herring decides to reclaim the word WED 'middle class' and tries to decipher the 16th century phrase WED 'a mare's nest'; Natalie Haynes tries to get rid of the word WED 'decimate' and despite being a vegetarian works out what the WED very meaty cookery term 'barding' means; Alex Horne comes up WED with the correct definition for the Victorian phrase 'a WED scraping castle' and asks to take the word 'a' out of the WED dictionary. Meanwhile Katy Brand takes a guess at what the WED unit of measurement 'the Warhol' is and reveals that her WED favourite word is 'plop'. WED WED Writers: Jon Hunter and James Kettle. WED Producer: Claire Jones. WED WED 12:00 You and Yours b01s4qqg (Listen) WED Consumer news with Winifred Robinson. WED WED 12:57 Weather b01s37ql (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 13:00 World at One b01s4qqj (Listen) WED National and international news. Listeners can share their WED views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or on twitter: #wato. WED WED 13:45 Thames Crossings b01s5f3m (Listen) WED Pilgrimage WED WED Episode 2 (of 5): Pilgrimage WED WED The River Thames has run softly through Piers Plowight's WED largely unplanned life. In this five-part series, he visits WED different points along its course where his life has crossed WED the great river. WED WED In this programme, Piers visits Ewelme, a small village in WED the scoop of the Chiltern Hills where his sister is buried WED across the way from Jerome K Jerome. WED WED Produced by Alan Hall WED A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 14:00 The Archers b01s4g7q (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 14:15 Afternoon Drama b01s4qqn (Listen) WED Love, War and Trains WED WED Love, War and Trains by Ian McMillan WED John is a sailor in the Royal Navy and Olive is in the WAAFs WED based in Wigan. He's Scots, she's a Yorkshire lass and WED they're in love. John has a 48 hour pass to get married in WED Scotland - but he's travelling from Plymouth and she can't WED get leave. So she goes AWOL. This is the heart warming story WED of how poet Ian McMillan's parents' got married during World WED War 2. A poignant and funny verse drama. WED WED Director/Producer Gary Brown WED WED John is played by Billy Boyd - Pippin in 'Lord of the WED Rings'. WED WED Ian McMillan: "This is the story of my mum and dad's wedding WED in October 1943 in Peebles in the Scottish Borders. They WED wrote to each other for a few years, met a couple of times WED and then got married on a forty-eight hour pass. WED My dad's ship docked at Plymouth and he got the train to WED Peebles; my mother had applied for leave but they wouldn't WED give her any so she went AWOL, over the fence and away to WED the nearest station. They arrived in Peebles, got married, WED had one night together in the Tontine Hotel and then my dad WED went back to his ship and my mother went back to base and WED got arrested and spent two weeks in the glasshouse. Arrested WED for love! Fantastic!". WED WED Credits WED John: Billy Boyd WED Olive: Verity-May Henry WED Archie: Henry Devas WED Chorus: Henry Devas WED Bella: Natalie Grady WED Chorus: Natalie Grady WED Guard: Hamilton Berstock WED Redcap: Hamilton Berstock WED Director: Gary Brown WED Producer: Gary Brown WED Writer: Ian McMillan WED WED 15:00 Money Box Live b01s4qqq (Listen) WED Do you need advice about student finance? Call 03700 100 444 WED between 1pm and 3.30pm on Wednesday or e-mail WED moneybox@bbc.co.uk WED WED Whether you're hoping to begin or continue with a higher WED education course in the autumn you need to apply now if you WED want your money at the start of term. WED WED The NUS estimate that average expenditure for a full-time WED student in England is around £22,189 for each academic year, WED so getting your finances sorted out in advance is a must. WED WED Tuition fees will vary depending on your choice of course WED and university but they can be up to £9,000 per year and you WED will also have to meet accommodation costs and living WED expenses. WED WED For advice about entitlement to loans, grants and bursaries WED which could help, why not call or e-mail our student advice WED team. WED WED Or perhaps you have a question about the interest rate which WED will be charged on loans and how and when you will have to WED repay them. WED WED Presenter Paul Lewis will put your questions to: WED WED Phil Davis, Chairperson of National Association of Student WED Money Advisers WED David Malcolm, Head of Social Policy, National Union of WED Students WED Miriam Craven, Head of Customer Engagement, Student Awards WED Agency for Scotland WED WED Whatever your student finance question, call 03700 100 444 WED between 1pm and 3.30pm on Wednesday or email WED moneybox@bbc.co.uk. Phone lines are open between 1pm and WED 3.30pm. Standard geographic charges apply. Calls from WED mobiles may be higher. WED WED 15:30 All in the Mind b01s4g7z (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b01s4qqs (Listen) WED The Great British Class Survey WED WED Laurie Taylor discusses the 'Great British Class Survey', a WED unique piece of research conducted by BBC Lab UK and WED academics from six different universities. The researchers WED devised a new way of measuring class, which doesn't define WED it by occupation but by the different kinds of economic, WED cultural and social resources or 'capitals' that people WED possess. But how have other academics with an interest in WED class reacted to this research? Mike Savage, one of the WED survey researchers and Professor in Sociology at the London WED School of Economics, debates the merits of this new approach WED to class stratification with Colin Mills, lecturer in WED Sociology at Nuffield College, Oxford and Beverly Skeggs, WED Professor of Sociology at Goldsmiths College, London. WED WED Also, Dick Hobbs, Professor of Sociology at the University WED of Essex, offers a tribute to the eminent criminologist, WED Geoff Pearson who died recently. WED WED Producer: Jayne Egerton. WED WED 16:30 The Media Show b01s4qqv (Listen) WED Steve Hewlett presents a topical programme about the WED fast-changing media world. WED WED 17:00 PM b01s4qqx (Listen) WED Full coverage and analysis of the day's news. WED WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01s37qq (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 18:30 Down the Line b01s4qqz (Listen) WED Series 5, Episode 1 WED WED The return of the ground-breaking Radio 4 show, hosted by WED the legendary Gary Bellamy and brought to you by the WED creators of The Fast Show. WED WED Starring Rhys Thomas, with Amelia Bullmore, Simon Day, Felix WED Dexter, Charlie Higson, Lucy Montgomery, Adil Ray, Robert WED Popper and Paul Whitehouse. WED WED Produced by Charlie Higson and Paul Whitehouse WED A Down The Line production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED Credits WED Gary Bellamy: Rhys Thomas WED Actor: Amelia Bullmore WED Actor: Simon Day WED Actor: Felix Dexter WED Actor: Charlie Higson WED Actor: Lucy Montgomery WED Actor: Adil Ray WED Actor: Robert Popper WED Actor: Paul Whitehouse WED Producer: Charlie Higson WED Producer: Paul Whitehouse WED WED 19:00 The Archers b01s4qr1 (Listen) WED Paul makes his wishes clear. WED WED Producer: Vanessa Whitburn WED WED 19:15 Front Row b01s4qr3 (Listen) WED With Mark Lawson, including Cultural Exchange: Melvyn Bragg WED shares his long-standing love of a Rembrandt self-portrait WED from 1658. WED WED Producer Olivia Skinner. WED WED 19:45 The Cazalets b01s4qb2 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] WED WED 20:00 Leader Conference b01s4qr5 (Listen) WED Series 3, Episode 2 WED WED Andrew Rawnsley presents a live, studio-based debate taking WED the form of newspaper leader conferences. WED WED He is joined by five prominent journalists, who write WED leading articles or editorials for their newspapers, WED representing the press in the nations of the UK and across WED the English regions as well as the leading national WED newspapers. WED WED Three subjects in the news will be decided upon and WED discussed. Two of these reflect current events at home and WED abroad - and prompt lively and provocative discussion. The WED third subject offers some light relief. WED WED Following the discussion of each of the three subjects, WED Andrew invites one of his guests to draw up on air the WED "leader" for that subject setting out its main points. This WED important component of the programme helps ensure that WED resolution of the debate is achieved for listeners and that WED the full range of views expressed is reflected. WED WED Contributions from listeners are also encouraged throughout WED the programme and particularly at the start for the WED component they shape most: "tomorrow's top story headline" WED which is heard at the end of the programme. WED WED The leaders are posted online at the Radio 4 website WED following the programme. WED WED Producer Simon Coates. WED WED 20:45 Four Thought b01s4qr7 (Listen) WED Series 4, Daniela Papi: The Problem with Volunteering WED WED Daniela Papi explores the dark side of volunteering WED overseas, and asks how local people and wealthy WED 'voluntourists' alike can ensure a positive experience. WED WED Four Thought is a series of talks which combine new ideas WED and personal stories. Speakers explain their latest thinking WED on the trends and ideas in culture and society in front of a WED live audience at Somerset House. WED WED Producer: Giles Edwards. WED WED 21:00 Costing the Earth b01s4g7d (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 15:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 21:30 Midweek b01s4q5j (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 21:58 Weather b01s37qs (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b01s4qr9 (Listen) WED In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. WED WED 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01s4qrc (Listen) WED This Is Where I Am, Episode 8 WED WED Debs and Abdi have been happily painting his new flat with WED Rebecca and things are looking positive for the newly WED settled family. But then Abdi's first day at work sparks off WED a devastating flashback to his last day in Dadaab. WED WED Read by Maureen Beattie and Jude Akuwidike. WED WED Abridged and produced by Jane Marshall WED A Jane Marshall production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 23:00 Can't Tell Nathan Caton Nothing b01s4r79 (Listen) WED Series 2, About Upset Mums WED WED EPISODE ONE: ABOUT UPSET MUMS WED WED In a mix of stand-up and re-enacted family life - Nathan WED Caton illustrates what can happen when you don't listen to WED your Mum. WED WED NATHAN ..... NATHAN CATON WED MUM ..... ADJOA ANDOH WED DAD ..... CURTIS WALKER WED GRANDMA ..... MONA HAMMOND WED REVEREND WILLIAMS ..... DON GILÉT WED WED Written by Nathan Caton and James Kettle WED Additional Material by Maff Brown and Ola WED Producer: Katie Tyrrell WED WED 23:15 One b008z74g (Listen) WED Series 2, Episode 1 WED WED Sketch show written by David Quantick, featuring Graeme WED Garden, Johnny Daukes, Deborah Norton, Katie Maskell, Dan WED Antopolski and Andrew Crawford. WED WED 23:30 No Triumph, No Tragedy b01mhtcy (Listen) WED Genevieve Barr WED WED Peter White talks to Genevieve Barr about the impact WED deafness has on her acting career. WED WED Genevieve Barr is a deaf actress who recently took the lead WED in the BBC drama, The Silence. She played Amelia, a deaf WED girl who preferred the silence to hearing with a cochlear WED implant. Genevieve tells Peter that her own experience WED differs from that of her character Amelia, as she didn't WED learn to sign and was taught to speak by her mother. WED Genevieve has also not had a cochlear implant. She explained WED that she had to learn how to use sign language to perform WED the role and was also asked to remove her hearing aids by WED the director, so that Amelia could have her hair tied back WED and the implant could be visibly inserted and removed from WED her ear. WED WED Genevieve said that this experience meant that she was then WED subjected to hearing the silence enjoyed by her character WED and that this experience helped her play the part better. WED WED Producer: Cheryl Gabriel. WED WED THU THURSDAY 02 MAY 2013 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b01s37rm (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:30 Book of the Week b01sbgfp (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01s37rp (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01s37rr (Listen) THU BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01s37rt (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b01s37rw (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01s4rhs (Listen) THU A reading and a reflection to start the day with the Rev'd THU Peter Baker. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b01s4rhv (Listen) THU The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. THU THU 06:00 Today b01s4rhx (Listen) THU News and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, Yesterday THU in Parliament, Weather, Thought for the Day. THU THU 09:00 In Our Time b01s4rhz (Listen) THU Gnosticism THU THU Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Gnosticism, a sect THU associated with early Christianity. The Gnostics believed THU that they possessed a special knowledge of spiritual THU mysteries, and commonly divided the universe into two THU domains: the visible world and the spiritual one. The THU Gnostics were regarded as heretics by many of the Church THU Fathers, but until an important archaeological discovery in THU the early twentieth century, little was known about their THU beliefs. THU THU Producer: Thomas Morris. THU THU Credits THU Presenter: Melvyn Bragg THU Producer: Thomas Morris THU Producer: Victoria Brignell THU THU 09:45 Book of the Week b01sbgl4 (Listen) THU Margaret Thatcher: The Authorized Biography, Episode 4 THU THU The reader is Nicholas Farrell. THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b01s4rj1 (Listen) THU Jenni Murray presents the programme that offers a female THU perspective on the world. THU THU 10:45 The Cazalets b01s4rj3 (Listen) THU Confusion, Episode 9 THU THU by Elizabeth Jane Howard THU THU Dramatised by Sarah Daniels THU THU Zoe is astonished to find Jack waiting for her at Home THU Place, whilst Louise discovers more about herself and the THU terrible secret Michael has been hiding from her. THU THU Produced and Directed by Sally Avens and Marion Nancarrow THU THU pper THU Louise: Alix Wilton Regan THU Michael: Harry Hadden-Paton THU THU 11:00 Crossing Continents b01s4rj5 (Listen) THU Hazaras, Hatred and Pakistan THU THU Mobeen Azhar travels to the Pakistani city of Quetta to THU investigate how it has become the scene of violent and THU indiscriminate attacks by Sunni militants against the local THU ethnic Hazara community. It's a city which has become THU effectively a no-go area for foreign journalists due to the THU persistent and intensifying violence. Mobeen tells the story THU of a single day in January of this year when over 100 people THU lost their lives in twin bombings in Quetta. Claiming THU responsibility was the Sunni militant group THU Lashkar-e-Jhangvi. Mobeen retraces the story of the THU bombings, and examines the growing security concerns in a THU district dominated by the Shia Hazara community. THU THU He speaks to Fayyaz Mohammed, a candidate in the forthcoming THU elections who has links to Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, and talks with THU Paul Bhatti, who until recently was the Pakistani Minister THU of National Harmony. Bhatti blames the government's THU inability to enforce "effective policy" on Pakistan's long THU history of military dictatorship. Azhar meets blast THU survivors and the families of victims, and finds out how the THU security situation is causing many young Hazaras to leave THU Quetta to seek a better life elsewhere - despite the dangers THU of putting their lives in the hands of people smugglers. THU THU Producer: Julie Ball. THU THU 11:30 Bernard Who? b01s4rj7 (Listen) THU Episode 2 THU THU This year, the actor Bernard Cribbins celebrates his 85th THU birthday and more than 70 years in showbusiness. In this THU revealing two-part series he talks to his friend and THU producer Martin Jenkins about his extraordinary career, and THU a cast of friends share their memories of working with THU Bernard, including David Tennant, Barbara Windsor, Barry THU Cryer and the late Richard Briers. THU He's been directed by Hitchcock, starred alongside a galaxy THU of screen legends including Peter Sellers and Kenneth THU Williams, is good mates with David Tennant, and has THU performed with Barbara Windsor wearing nothing but a bikini. THU THU In this second programme, the legendary Beatles producer THU George Martin recalls working with Bernard on the 1962 THU chart-toppers Right Said Fred and Hole in the Ground. THU Bernard reveals the secret to his storytelling magic on THU Jackanory, which captured the hearts and imaginations of a THU generation of children - including David Tennant. We hear THU how Bernard found the voices for Uncle Bulgaria and Tomsk in THU The Wombles and Jenny Agutter, his co-star in The Railway THU Children, discloses what she believes to be the secret of THU Bernard's eternal youth. THU THU David Tennant and the writer Russell T Davis give their THU insights on working with Bernard on Dr Who, and the joy of THU reminding the viewing public what an exceptional actor he THU is. "He can break your heart with a single line," says THU Russell T Davis. THU THU This is Bernard's own intimate retrospective of his career, THU told in conversation with his friend for more than 50 years, THU the acclaimed radio drama producer Martin Jenkins. THU THU Producer: Eve Streeter THU A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 12:00 You and Yours b01s4rv2 (Listen) THU Consumer news with Winifred Robinson. THU THU 12:57 Weather b01s37ry (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b01s4rv4 (Listen) THU National and international news. Listeners can share their THU views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or on twitter: #wato. THU THU 13:45 Thames Crossings b01s5g50 (Listen) THU Words and Flesh THU THU Episode 4 (of 5): Words and Flesh THU THU The River Thames has run softly through Piers Plowright's THU largely unplanned life. In this five-part series, he visits THU different points along its course where his life has crossed THU the great river. THU THU Piers' journey brings him to Cookham and Maidenhead, where THU he views the river through the work of his favourite artist, THU the painter Stanley Spencer, and explores the town's racy THU reputation: 'Are you married or are you from Maidenhead?' THU THU Producer by Alan Hall THU A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 14:00 The Archers b01s4qr1 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:15 Afternoon Drama b01s4sz2 (Listen) THU The Colour of Milk THU THU The Colour of Milk adapted from her novel by Nell Leyshon. THU THU It's 1830. Mary is fifteen. She lives a quiet life on a farm THU with her mother and father. She's never spent a night away THU from her home, until the local vicar asks for help with his THU sick wife. Sexual desires have brutal consequences . THU THU Directed in Salford by Susan Roberts. THU THU Credits THU Mary: Carly Bawden THU The Vicar: Peter Hamilton-Dyer THU Father: Jonathan Keeble THU Director: Susan Roberts THU Writer: Nell Leyshon THU THU 15:00 Open Country b01s4sz4 (Listen) THU Highland Ponies THU THU The image of a keeper leading a pony off a heather-clad THU hill, a deer carcass slung across its back, may sound like THU something from a Landseer painting, but in 21st century THU Scotland, Highland ponies - or garrons - are still a valued THU part of the deer stalking business. THU THU Helen Mark visits the Reay Forest estate in Sutherland to THU find out what ponies can offer which even the toughest THU off-road vehicle cannot. Garrons were a fixture of most THU estates until the 1970s, when in many places they were THU deemed to be part of the past. Some estates, though, kept THU garrons for use in the most inaccessible corners of their THU land, and they are now being adopted for the first time by THU some estates which have come to see the value of these hardy THU creatures. Helen hears how the garron is part of the THU Highland landscape not just for sentimental reasons, THU creating continuity with the past, but for sound economic THU and practical purposes too. THU THU Produced by Moira Hickey. THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b01s3939 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 on Sunday] THU THU 15:30 Open Book b01s39zb (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] THU THU 16:00 The Film Programme b01s4sz6 (Listen) THU Pedro Almodovar, Tom Courtenay THU THU The Spanish director Pedro Almodovar talks to Francine Stock THU about his raunchy new comedy I'm So Excited in which a plane THU with a technical fault circles the skies, hoping to find an THU airport to land in. According to Almodovar, it's a metaphor THU about the political and financial difficulties facing Spain. THU And the actor Tom Courtenay looks back at Billy Liar, 50 THU years on. Directed by John Schlesinger, the film portrays THU Billy, a dreamer working in an undertakers and planning THU escape. THU Producer: Elaine Lester. THU THU 16:30 Material World b01s4sz8 (Listen) THU Quentin Cooper presents his weekly digest of science in and THU behind the headlines. He talks to the scientists who are THU publishing their research in peer reviewed journals, and he THU discusses how that research is scrutinised and used by the THU scientific community, the media and the public. The THU programme also reflects how science affects our daily lives; THU from predicting natural disasters to the latest advances in THU cutting edge science like nanotechnology and stem cell THU research. THU THU 17:00 PM b01s4szb (Listen) THU Coverage and analysis of the day's news. THU THU 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01s37s0 (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 18:30 Mark Thomas: The Manifesto b01s4szd (Listen) THU Series 5, Episode 5 THU THU Comedian and activist Mark Thomas creates a People's THU Manifesto using policies suggested by his studio audience. THU THU 19:00 The Archers b01s4szg (Listen) THU Elona has to bite the bullet. THU THU Producer: Vanessa Whitburn THU THU 19:15 Front Row b01s4szj (Listen) THU With Mark Lawson, including Cultural Exchange: Suggs from THU Madness shares his passion for a John Betjeman poem. THU THU Producer Nicki Paxman. THU THU 19:45 The Cazalets b01s4rj3 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] THU THU 20:00 The Report b01s4szl (Listen) THU MMR and the legacy of the link with autism THU THU Melanie Abbott looks at the measles outbreak in South Wales. THU She looks at how the legacy of Andrew Wakefield's 1998 paper THU still lives on because of a perception that autism is rife THU amongst some immigrant groups. She talks to Somalis in THU Minnesota and finds that a lack of answers and high rates of THU autism in their families has affected MMR uptake and how THU this message is being heard back here in the UK. THU THU 20:30 In Business b01s4szn (Listen) THU Job Search THU THU Millions of young people want to work but do not know where THU to find it. THU A clutch of them tell their stories to Peter Day, and a THU panel of experts weighs in with advice and guidance. THU THU 21:00 Return to Japan b01s4vdt (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Tuesday] THU THU 21:30 In Our Time b01s4rhz (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 21:58 Weather b01s37s2 (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b01s4szq (Listen) THU In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. THU THU 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01s4szs (Listen) THU This Is Where I Am, Episode 9 THU THU Four year-old Rebecca has been staying with Debs while Abdi THU recovers in hospital from the dramatic trauma of his THU flashback. But finally it's time for the little girl to go THU and visit her beloved father. THU THU Read by Maureen Beattie and Jude Akuwidike. THU THU Abridged and produced by Jane Marshall THU A Jane Marshall production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 23:00 Jon Ronson On b01s4szv (Listen) THU Series 7, Pride THU THU Writer and documentary maker Jon Ronson with more THU fascinating stories shedding light on the human condition. THU THU If you discovered that Hitler was a fugitive on the run, you THU might call the police. But what if, when he met you, he THU exclaimed how much he loved your work. Graham Linehan opens THU the programme with this conundrum, which tells you nothing THU about Nazi escapees, and everything about what too much THU pride in your work can do to your morals. THU THU Having a surfeit of pride wraps its tendrils around us, it THU can affect whole lives - as was the case with Anna, who THU always held her much loved grandparents up as role models THU for a long happy marriage. That was until her grandfather THU died and they discovered a box of cassettes in his office, THU revealing a secret so shocking it changed Anna's entire THU understanding of her family. THU THU Luke Wright is a performance poet who once fell foul of his THU pride when he tried to impress a band he greatly admired. He THU planned to seduce them with his wit so that they'd want to THU be his friend. Things began to go awry but pride, that most THU domineering of masters, forced Luke to struggle on. The gap THU between his imagined evening and the one that was actually THU happening widened to epic proportions. THU THU There's a lesson in there somewhere - one that comedian THU Helen Keen learnt the hard way. A good degree from Cambridge THU University meant she felt she was sure to walk into a THU successful career. When she found herself doing filing in a THU dead end engineering firm in London, she took matters into THU her own hands and tried to become a spy. MI5 must have THU collectively raised an eyebrow as she set about trying to THU convince them of her credentials by weaving together some THU far-fetched untruths. THU THU Producer: Lucy Greenwell THU A Unique production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 23:30 No Triumph, No Tragedy b01mnqmn (Listen) THU Chen Guangcheng THU THU Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng blazed across the global THU news headlines earlier this year when he escaped from THU custody in China and sought refuge in the American Embassy - THU but Peter White has known Chen for about ten years and THU interviewed him several times. In this special edition of THU the programme, Peter draws on those recordings - and records THU a new interview - with Guangcheng to explore his childhood, THU his lack of formal education and his attitude to disability. THU THU Chen talks about his interest in law and his growing THU political awareness, which resulted in him taking on cases THU for blind and disabled people who were being forced to pay THU taxes, despite laws exempting them. These actions brought THU him to the attention of the Chinese authorities and he soon THU became a thorn in their side. He was imprisoned for over THU four years and then placed under house arrest, during which THU time he and his wife were beaten by local officials. THU THU Chen eventually escaped and was finally allowed to fly to THU America to study law in New York, which is where Peter went THU to talk to him for this programme. THU THU Prod: Cheryl Gabriel. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 03 MAY 2013 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b01s37sx (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:30 Book of the Week b01sbgl4 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01s37sz (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01s37t1 (Listen) FRI BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01s37t3 (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b01s37t5 (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01s4vdh (Listen) FRI A reading and a reflection to start the day with the Rev'd FRI Peter Baker. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b01s4vdk (Listen) FRI The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. FRI FRI 06:00 Today b01s4vdm (Listen) FRI News and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, Yesterday FRI in Parliament, Weather, Thought for the Day. FRI FRI 09:00 The Reunion b01s393k (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Sunday] FRI FRI 09:45 Book of the Week b01sbgr3 (Listen) FRI Margaret Thatcher: The Authorized Biography, Episode 5 FRI FRI The reader is Nicholas Farrell. FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b01s4vdp (Listen) FRI A celebration of aunts; Alison Curtis; Tough women in FRI science fiction FRI FRI What's happened to the tough women in science fiction? FRI Alison Curtis - Britain's first female boxing coach. A FRI celebration of aunts - why do they get such a bad time in FRI literature? Presented by Jenni Murray. FRI FRI 10:45 The Cazalets b01s4vdr (Listen) FRI Confusion, Episode 10 FRI FRI by Elizabeth Jane Howard. Archie has something to tell Zoe FRI which will break her heart - but neither of them knows who FRI is returning to surprise them. The joys and sorrows of war FRI have never seemed more acute than now. Dramatised by Sarah FRI Daniels FRI FRI Produced and Directed by Sally Avens and Marion Nancarrow FRI FRI 11:00 Swimming Through Chocolate b01s4qqb (Listen) FRI For thirty years Gladys Jones and Sir Adrian Cadbury worked FRI at the same factory in Bourneville in Birmingham, but never FRI met. They now come together to reflect on their lives then FRI and now, and the love of chocolate and sport that unites FRI them. FRI Gladys joined Cadbury in 1936 at the age of 14. She was FRI grateful to have a job that would provide her with security, FRI further education and a chance to indulge in her great FRI passion: swimming. Having previously only ever swum in the FRI local canal, the new opportunity to use the factory's 'Girls FRI Baths' on a daily basis led her to a new career in the FRI sport's section at the plant as a swimming teacher and life FRI saver. FRI Sir Adrian had a different trajectory: after Cambridge, the FRI army and rowing in the Helsinki Olympics, he joined the FRI family firm in 1952 rising to become Chairman of the FRI company. FRI FRI We join them both as they travel from their homes to the FRI Bournville club to meet and compare their memories of the FRI place, the people and a working life long gone. FRI FRI Producer: Lucy Lunt. FRI FRI 11:30 Party b01mqq72 (Listen) FRI Series 3, The Curry FRI FRI Series 3 of the satirical comedy about a group of young FRI idealists trying to make waves with their new political FRI party. This week the group reconvene after their Summer FRI break and the ambition steps up a gear. Written by Tom FRI Basden. FRI FRI Simon .... Tom Basden FRI Duncan .... Tim Key FRI Jared .... Jonny Sweet FRI Mel .... Anna Crilly FRI Phoebe .... Katy Wix FRI FRI Producer .... Julia McKenzie. FRI FRI 12:00 You and Yours b01s4vdw (Listen) FRI Consumer news with Peter White. FRI FRI 12:52 The Listening Project b01s4vdy (Listen) FRI Gail and Natalie - Healing Old Wounds FRI FRI Fi Glover with a conversation between sisters about how one FRI of them turned to self-harm as the result of being bullied, FRI proving once again that it's surprising what you hear when FRI you listen. FRI FRI The Listening Project is a Radio 4 initiative that offers a FRI snapshot of contemporary Britain in which people across the FRI UK volunteer to have a conversation with someone close to FRI them about a subject they've never discussed intimately FRI before. The conversations are being gathered across the UK FRI by teams of producers from local and national radio stations FRI who facilitate each encounter. Every conversation - they're FRI not BBC interviews, and that's an important difference - FRI lasts up to an hour, and is then edited to extract the key FRI moment of connection between the participants. Most of the FRI unedited conversations are being archived by the British FRI Library and used to build up a collection of voices FRI capturing a unique portrait of the UK in the second decade FRI of the millennium. You can upload your own conversations or FRI just learn more about The Listening Project by visiting FRI bbc.co.uk/listeningproject FRI FRI Producer: Marya Burgess. FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b01s37t7 (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b01s4vf0 (Listen) FRI National and international news. Listeners can share their FRI views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or on twitter: #wato. FRI FRI 13:45 Thames Crossings b01s5gjv (Listen) FRI The Boat Is Waiting FRI FRI Episode 5 (of 5): The Boat is Waiting FRI FRI The River Thames has run softly through Piers Plowright's FRI largely unplanned life. In this five-part series, he visits FRI different points along its course where his life has crossed FRI the great river. FRI FRI Piers' pilgrimage along the river reaches its conclusion in FRI south-west London, where the Thames becomes tidal and where FRI he lived with his young family. He visits Eel Pie Island and FRI meets Walter De La Mare's grandson. FRI FRI Produced by Alan Hall FRI A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 14:00 The Archers b01s4szg (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 14:15 Afternoon Drama b01s4vf2 (Listen) FRI Dead Man's Suit FRI FRI A strange loner buys a suit in a charity shop and it changes FRI his life. He secures a powerful new job and women notice him FRI for the first time. Does the suit possess some sort of FRI supernatural power? Or is it something more sinister? A FRI black comedy by Michael Stewart. FRI FRI Director/ Producer Gary Brown FRI FRI Michael Stewart is a former winner of the Alfred Bradley FRI Bursary Award for writers new to radio; this is his third FRI Afternoon Drama. His novel 'Black Crow' was published in FRI 2011 to great critical acclaim. FRI FRI Credits FRI Ian: Jeremy Swift FRI David: Conrad Nelson FRI John: Conrad Nelson FRI Nicky: Kate Coogan FRI Helen: Natalie Grady FRI Chardonnay: Lisa Allen FRI Waiter: Hamilton Berstock FRI Ben: Isaac Whitmore FRI Maisie: Jenna Addinall FRI Director: Gary Brown FRI Producer: Gary Brown FRI Writer: Michael Stewart FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b01s4vf4 (Listen) FRI East Malling FRI FRI This week the team visit the East Malling Research Centre in FRI Kent, with Eric Robson in the chair. On the panel taking FRI local gardeners' questions are Matthew Wilson, Bob Flowerdew FRI and Christine Walkden. FRI FRI Produced by Howard Shannon. FRI A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 15:45 Afternoon Reading b00tq11c (Listen) FRI Agatha Christie's The Mysterious Mr Quin, The Sign in the FRI Sky FRI FRI Following the success of the first series of The Mysterious FRI Mr Quin, Martin Jarvis reads three more stories about Agatha FRI Christie's personal favourite character. FRI FRI Mr Quin assists his friend Mr Satterthwaite to investigate FRI mysteries. But one mystery remains - who is Mr Harley Quin FRI himself? FRI FRI Mr Satterthwaite, and Mr Quin discuss the outcome of a FRI trial. Martin Wylde has been found guilty of the murder of FRI Vivian Barnaby. Satterthwaite knew the victim and her FRI husband Sir George, and thinks Wylde is an unlikely murderer FRI but the evidence seems convincing. FRI FRI Younger than her husband, Vivian formed a relationship with FRI Wylde, but he became anxious to end the liaison to pursue a FRI romance with a local girl, Sylvia Dale. FRI FRI At trial, Wylde admitted that, in answer to her letter, he FRI had gone to the Hall for a final meeting. He then went home, FRI accidentally leaving his shotgun behind. The household staff FRI heard a shot and found Vivian dead in the music room. All FRI the evidence was highly dependent on the time-lines of FRI everyone's story. FRI FRI Quin encourages Satterthwaite to visit the only member of FRI the household who was present on the day of the murder but FRI had not given evidence, a housekeeper who had taken up a FRI lucrative job in Canada. She has one piece of new FRI information. Just before she heard the shot she saw the FRI smoke from the local train which seemed to be forming the FRI shape of a giant hand in the sky. She felt that - given it FRI was also Friday the 13th - it was 'a sign'. FRI FRI With the help of Mr Quin will Satterthwaite be able find the FRI murderer and save a possibly innocent man? FRI FRI Producer: Rosalind Ayres FRI A Jarvis & Ayres Production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b01s4vf6 (Listen) FRI Obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories FRI of people who have recently died. FRI FRI Producer: Philip Sellars FRI FRI 16:30 More or Less b01s4vf8 (Listen) FRI Investigating the numbers in the news. FRI FRI 16:55 The Listening Project b01s4vfb (Listen) FRI Ian and Chad - The Crying Game FRI FRI Fi Glover with another conversation in the Radio 4 series FRI that proves it's surprising what you hear when you listen. FRI This one's about whether men feel it's ok to let the tears FRI fall. FRI FRI The Listening Project is a Radio 4 initiative that offers a FRI snapshot of contemporary Britain in which people across the FRI UK volunteer to have a conversation with someone close to FRI them about a subject they've never discussed intimately FRI before. The conversations are being gathered across the UK FRI by teams of producers from local and national radio stations FRI who facilitate each encounter. Every conversation - they're FRI not BBC interviews, and that's an important difference - FRI lasts up to an hour, and is then edited to extract the key FRI moment of connection between the participants. Most of the FRI unedited conversations are being archived by the British FRI Library and used to build up a collection of voices FRI capturing a unique portrait of the UK in the second decade FRI of the millennium. You can upload your own conversations or FRI just learn more about The Listening Project by visiting FRI bbc.co.uk/listeningproject FRI FRI Producer: Marya Burgess. FRI FRI 17:00 PM b01s4vfd (Listen) FRI Full coverage and analysis of the day's news. FRI FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01s37t9 (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 18:30 The News Quiz b01s4vfg (Listen) FRI Series 80, Episode 4 FRI FRI Satirical review of the week's news, chaired by Sandi FRI Toksvig. FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b01s5j4y (Listen) FRI Writer ..... Simon Frith FRI Director ..... Rosemary Watts FRI Editor ..... Vanessa Whitburn FRI Alistair Lloyd ..... Michael Lumsden FRI David Archer ..... Timothy Bentinck FRI Ruth Archer ..... Felicity Finch FRI Pip Archer ..... Helen Monks FRI Josh Archer ..... Cian Cheesbrough FRI Tony Archer ..... Colin Skipp FRI Pat Archer ..... Patricia Gallimore FRI Helen Archer ..... Louiza Patikas FRI Tom Archer ..... Tom Graham FRI Jennifer Aldridge ..... Angela Piper FRI Matt Crawford ..... Kim Durham FRI Lilian Bellamy ..... Sunny Ormonde FRI Christine Barford ..... Lesley Saweard FRI Clarrie Grundy ..... Heather Bell FRI Nic Grundy ..... Becky Wright FRI Neil Carter ..... Brian Hewlett FRI Susan Carter ..... Charlotte Martin FRI Brenda Tucker ..... Amy Shindler FRI Lynda Snell ..... Carole Boyd FRI Kirsty Miller ..... Annabelle Dowler FRI Paul Morgan ..... Michael Fenton Stephens FRI Darrell Makepeace ..... Dan Hagley FRI Elona Makepeace ..... Eri Shuka FRI Charlie Morgan ..... Ben Caplan. FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b01s4vfn (Listen) FRI With John Wilson, including Cultural Exchange: writer FRI Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie nominates the painting Tutu, by Ben FRI Enwonwu. FRI FRI Producer Rebecca Nicholson. FRI FRI 19:45 The Cazalets b01s4vdr (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b01s4vfq (Listen) FRI Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate from the Radio FRI Theatre at Broadcasting House, London, with Shadow Home FRI Secretary Yvette Cooper MP, former Leader of the Liberal FRI Democrats Charles Kennedy MP, Justice Secretary Chris FRI Grayling MP and financier Terry Smith. FRI FRI 20:50 A Point of View b01s4vfs (Listen) FRI John Gray presents a weekly reflection on a topical issue. FRI FRI 21:00 Saturday Drama b01jppvt (Listen) FRI Talking It Over FRI FRI By Julian Barnes FRI Dramatised by Julia Stoneham FRI FRI Stuart and Oliver have been friends since school but are FRI rather different. FRI Oliver is charismatic and has this way of talking. Stuart is FRI shy and no good at saying what he means. But then Stuart FRI meets Gillian and things begin to change ... FRI FRI Directed by Tracey Neale FRI FRI Julian Barnes' sequel 'Love, etc' is the Saturday Drama FRI tomorrow afternoon at 2.30 pm. FRI FRI Award winning writer Julian Barnes has written many novels FRI which have been translated into more than thirty languages. FRI 'Talking It Over' won the Prix Femina Award. 'The Sense of FRI An Ending' was winner of the 2011 Man Booker Prize. His FRI latest book, recently published, is 'Levels of Life', a FRI semi-biographical book about his wife Pat Kavanagh's death. FRI FRI Julia Stoneham has written many radio plays. Her radio FRI series about the Land Army Girls - 'The Cinderella Service' FRI has been published as a trilogy of novels and she is at FRI present working on another novel. Julia has also dramatised FRI the sequel 'Love, etc' which is the Saturday Drama tomorrow FRI afternoon at 2.30 pm. FRI FRI Credits FRI Adaptor: Julia Stoneham FRI Author: Julian Barnes FRI Stuart: Carl Prekopp FRI Oliver: Nicholas Boulton FRI Gillian: Hermione Norris FRI Madame Rives: Tracy Wiles FRI Director: Tracey Neale FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b01s37tc (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b01s4vfv (Listen) FRI In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. FRI FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01s4vfx (Listen) FRI This Is Where I Am, Episode 10 FRI FRI Debs has been overburdened by her grief at losing her FRI husband. Now Abdi shows her how to let it go. And, in FRI return, Debs makes a startling discovery about his family's FRI last day in Dadaab. FRI FRI Read by Maureen Beattie and Jude Akuwidike. FRI FRI Abridged and produced by Jane Marshall FRI A Jane Marshall production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 23:00 Great Lives b01s4g7j (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Tuesday] FRI FRI 23:27 With Great Pleasure b01l7qk9 (Listen) FRI June Tabor FRI FRI Eminent folk singer (and former librarian) June Tabor FRI movingly explores the links between literature and song, FRI presenting extracts from her favourite books and poems to an FRI audience at Bristol's Arnolfini. The readers are Alun Raglan FRI and Noni Lewis. FRI FRI Producer: Mark Smalley. FRI FRI 23:55 The Listening Project b01s4vfz (Listen) FRI Kim and Ann - Always There for Me FRI FRI Fi Glover with a conversation between lifelong friends about FRI how they supported each other through the tragic loss that FRI tested their relationship, in the Radio 4 series that proves FRI it's surprising what you hear when you listen. FRI FRI The Listening Project is a Radio 4 initiative that offers a FRI snapshot of contemporary Britain in which people across the FRI UK volunteer to have a conversation with someone close to FRI them about a subject they've never discussed intimately FRI before. The conversations are being gathered across the UK FRI by teams of producers from local and national radio stations FRI who facilitate each encounter. Every conversation - they're FRI not BBC interviews, and that's an important difference - FRI lasts up to an hour, and is then edited to extract the key FRI moment of connection between the participants. Most of the FRI unedited conversations are being archived by the British FRI Library and used to build up a collection of voices FRI capturing a unique portrait of the UK in the second decade FRI of the millennium. You can upload your own conversations or FRI just learn more about The Listening Project by visiting FRI bbc.co.uk/listeningproject FRI FRI Producer: Marya Burgess. FRI
26 April, 2013
Radio 4 Listings for 27/04/2013 - 03/05/2013
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